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Trump Not To Visit Aisne-Marne American Cemetery Due Weather Hindering Helicopter
NOVEMBER 10, 2018 - 10:36 AM
By RAF CASERT and ANGELA CHARLTON , Associated Press
... At dawn Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Vimy Ridge .. in northern France ...
... Trump had been scheduled to head to the battlefield of Belleau Wood ...
However, Trump canceled his visit because of bad weather ...
https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/articles/ap-news/president-trump-has-canceled-his-scheduled-trip-aisne-marne-american-cemetery-and
33taw
(2,447 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Henry Austin
41 minutes ago
... White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, his wife and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit instead ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paris-latest-cancels-memorial-visit-us-military-cemetery-remembrance-world-war-one-a8627571.html
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)My husband and I are beyond shocked right now..
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)He has no sense of where he is and what this weekend means. He is an idiot of the first order.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Everyone knew it would have been pure hypocrisy. I prefer it this way.
blogslut
(38,016 posts)badhair77
(4,220 posts)And yet last week trump said he could never forgive President Obama for what he did to the military. He doesnt care about our soldiers.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Nov. 10, 2018 / 12:50 PM EST / Updated 1:16 PM EST
By Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker
... White House chief of staff John Kelly and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the roughly 50-mile long trip to the cemetery in a small motorcade of vehicles. The drive took about 90 minutes each way. Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled a similar distance by car to a commemorative event in northern France ...
Francois Heisbourg, a political analyst and former campaign adviser to Macron, posted a photograph on Twitter of someone bicycling in Paris and wrote the weather that kept Trump from the cemetery is: Nothing a cyclist can't handle, let alone a presidential helo ...
Kelly Magsamen, who served on the National Security Council under both Republican and a Democratic presidents, said it displayed real low energy, for Trump "to not bother to honor the sacrifice of American soldiers in WWI due to some rain. Somehow everyone else was able to do so today ...
The White House did not say why the president chose not to motorcade ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)By David Nakamura ,
Seung Min Kim and
James McAuley November 10 at 11:32 AM
... Its incredible that a president would travel to France for this significant anniversary and then remain in his hotel room watching TV rather than pay in person his respects to the Americans who gave their lives in France for the victory gained 100 years ago tomorrow, David Frum, who served as a speechwriter to former president George W. Bush, wrote ...
Trump was in France in body but appeared unenthusiastic in spirit ...
... the president plans to fly home just as Macrons Paris Peace Forum kicks off for three days of meetings aimed at galvanizing global action on shared challenges, such as climate change ...
Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser under Obama, ... said it was common to have a backup plan .... There is always a rain option. Always ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-and-macron-meet-whats-left-to-talk-about/2018/11/10/680a014c-e1ec-11e8-ba30-a7ded04d8fac_story.html?utm_term=.d078c8246459
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)He's simply shameful.
Quiet_Dem_Mom
(599 posts)He has to be at the head of the group at that last summit and had to shove the man out of his way...pardon, he Acostad him out of the way. He rode the golf cart while everyone else walked. If the helicopter ride was out, hed have to motor in just like the lessers. Unacceptable to his ego
This orange taint is all about being the biggest celebrity in the room