The City of Minneapolis — an actual municipal government with a budget and employees and everything — officially urged residents to spend Memorial Day gathering to "celebrate the life of George Floyd." Not fallen soldiers. Not the men and women who gave their lives defending this country. George Floyd. On Memorial Day. The city posted this with its whole chest, and the internet responded accordingly.

You genuinely cannot parody these people. They do it for you, free of charge, on a federal holiday.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey apparently saw nothing wrong with his city's official social media account conflating a day reserved for America's war dead with a tribute to a man who died during a police encounter in May 2020 — a man, it should be noted, who had a lengthy criminal record including an aggravated robbery conviction in Texas. The post went up over Memorial Day weekend 2026, and the ratio was immediate, merciless, and entirely deserved.

As Twitchy reported, the backlash was swift and overwhelming. The city's official account got absolutely hammered by people who apparently still believe Memorial Day is for honoring the roughly 1.3 million American service members who died in combat throughout our nation's history. Crazy concept, we know.

Let's be very clear about what happened here. This wasn't some rogue activist with a megaphone. This wasn't a random Twitter account with a Ukrainian flag and pronouns in the bio. This was the official City of Minneapolis telling its residents that the appropriate way to observe Memorial Day is to celebrate George Floyd.

Mayor Frey got ratioed into another dimension, and he earned every single quote tweet. This is the same city that let rioters burn a police precinct to the ground in 2020. The same city that briefly flirted with abolishing its police department entirely. The same city where violent crime surged after the city council decided that law enforcement was the real problem. So of course — of course — they'd look at a day honoring soldiers who stormed beaches at Normandy, froze at Chosin Reservoir, and bled out in the jungles of Vietnam, and think, "You know what this day needs? More George Floyd."

There are World War II veterans still alive. Korean War veterans who can still tell you about the cold. Vietnam vets who never got a welcome home parade. Gold Star families who set an empty place at the table every single holiday. And the City of Minneapolis looked at all of them and said, "Yeah, but have you considered celebrating George Floyd instead?"

This is what progressive brain rot looks like in its final form. They cannot help themselves. Every holiday, every national tradition, every shared American moment has to be filtered through their ideological lens until it's unrecognizable. Christmas is about climate justice. Independence Day is about colonialism. And now Memorial Day is about George Floyd.

The post is still up as of this writing, which tells you everything you need to know about how Minneapolis leadership views the backlash. They're not embarrassed. They're proud of it. In their world, this is moral clarity. In the real world — the one where parents bury children who wore the uniform — it's an insult.

I'd tell Mayor Frey to read the room, but the room already told him. He just doesn't care. Minneapolis has become a city that can't tell the difference between a soldier who died for your freedom and a convicted felon who became a political symbol. And they put it in writing, on the official city account, on Memorial Day.

To every veteran and Gold Star family reading this: we see you. We honor you. And we will never, ever confuse your sacrifice with a political prop.

Minneapolis can keep its candles. We'll keep our flags.