And surely one of the reasons his walk went viral is because he was a war veteran doing a charitable walk around the time of VE Day?
Now many people now consider Churchill a symbol of racism. His statue was defaced during the BLM protests. A quick google throws up the following news article;
‘Churchill referred to British imperialism as being for the good of the “primitive” and “subject races”.
In 1937 he said: “I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
Mr Churchill once said: “I hate Indians…they are beastly people with a beastly religion.”
He also referred to Palestinians as “barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung”.
So I’m guessing that WW2 has a cloud hanging over it in terms of the racists beliefs of Churchill. Perhaps that then tarnishes the veterans of the war and perhaps that has some bearing on the offensive tweet.