Trump says ‘no greater insult’ than WWII memorial vandalism: ‘We are on their trail’

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President Donald Trump condemned the graffiti vandalism of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., as a particularly grievous insult and said those responsible were being hunted down.

After the preeminent memorial to U.S. sacrifices in World War II was spray-painted with graffiti and its fountain filled with bubbly soap, the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Park Police quickly launched an investigation, and the matter soon drew the attention of the president.

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