Correct, and as he's not military the preferred sign of respect is to remove his hat and put his hand over his heart. Like all prior presidents (whom have not served) do, and as other civilians in this photo are doing.

Trump has a long history of giving zero shits about signs of respect to the military though, so I'd say it's always worth pointing them out for the crayon eaters that still vote for him in droves.

Example of a different enfeebled elderly president that actually respects the military signalling his respect to the fallen:

Isn’t the president commander in chief?

I’m not American, this is a real question

Fascists have this weird tendency to appear as if they are soldiers. Attire, manner, etc. Hitler used to do this too.

I mean to be fair, we were told it was a low effort meme.

To add to what you said, the origin of the salute is related to headgear.

One potential origin of the salute is knights raising their faceguards, which obviously requires you to be wearing one. Another potential origin of the salute is the courtesy of removing your hat in the presence of a superior officer. You still see this (though mostly in period historical dramas) with the hat tip.

The military still retains that link, you're not supposed to salute while wearing your hat. For civilians, the equivalent respectful move is to remove your hat in certain situations. These days you mostly encounter that at a sporting event where people sometimes remove their hats during the national anthem.

So, for a president who isn't part of the military, the official protocol is probably to stand at attention while not wearing a hat. An acceptable modern alternative is to salute, and since hats are uncommon these days it's mostly to salute while not wearing a hat. Saluting while wearing a hat is probably a reasonable variation on that. A disrespectful move would be to wear a hat and not salute. Of course, the fact it's a MAGA campaign merch hat is disrespectful in itself.

They're fucking hitting schools, hospitals and water facilities and this is what you're arguing about?

Respecting the people that just commited war crimes? And your take is how he should acshually do it?

Fucking hell.

so i'm not up on the uniform code recently, but since disphit here isn't in uniform shouldn't his hand be over his heart?

Yeah. He did that too. Then he also murdered and ate them.

What condition isn't he hiding would probably be a shorter list.

When I've watched news from the USA, even the left wing ones, all they care about is the "six servicemen who were killed." Americans are truely the most exceptional people. Even on the left other countries are populated by subhumans.

No, they are in uniform. Big difference.

True but he’s wearing a baseball cap.

They are following the correct military protocol, Trump is not.

He clearly needs to release another Donald J. Shitcoin as well. The grifts arent numerous enough, his supporters still think he has some credibility left.

Oh sweet, looks like the US is getting it's own "Kim Jong-Un looking at things" style photo blog sometime soon.