Donald Trump cancels First World War cemetery visit because it's raining
Source: Daily Mirror (UK)
Donald Trump cancelled his visit to a First World War cemetery, where hundreds of American troops are buried, due to rainy weather in northern France.
The US president was due to pay tribute to the Americans who sacrificed their lives in the Great War 100 years after the conflict's end.
But the White House announced that Trump, 72, and wife Melania, 48, would not fly to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau by helicopter.
It said their appearance at the military cemetery, north-east of Paris, had been cancelled due to poor weather and an American delegation would take their place.
Read more: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-cancels-first-world-13566869
They both have makeup and hair problems when they're out in the rain.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)The Marines have been referred to as "Devil Dogs" since Belleau Wood in WWI. "Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever??" Was the battle cry from Sgt Maj Daniel Daly...Marines so fierce they earned a nickname that was stay with them to this days. Trump is shitting on their memory and sacrifice and to that I give that bastard a hearty fuck you and would say "Come on you SOB...that shitty hair won't last forever"
benfranklin1776
(6,449 posts)He is unfit to be commander in chief of such fine men and women. Sacrifice and honor mean nothing to a wretched excuse of a man like him. Im sure however he wont be deterred by rain from meeting with his handler Vlad.
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)punished for many days ahead.
0rganism
(23,970 posts)pretty sure there was a fair bit of rain in the trenches, to go along with the mustard gas. "take five boys, we were going over the top but ya know it's raining, so extra rations and clean socks for everyone!"
packman
(16,296 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Behaves this way intentionally..or is it natural...
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)No one was there to take it so it's gone completely missing as he couldn't be bothered to close it and carry it himself.
central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)[link:https://m.
|lunasun
(21,646 posts)Trumps know they start to look like this if it rains
Or he is afraid of helicopters with Putin around
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)I always figured that was what the Orange Maggot would look like when he got out of the shower! OK eww. Need brain bleach for that image.
Sunriser13
(612 posts)Obviously this is the puppetmaster...
Lavern Cox did this well, but Tim Curry owns this character forever!
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EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)Quite a salute from the self-involved asshole.
Sunny Daze
(209 posts)wont cancel his meeting with Putin?
blue-wave
(4,363 posts)has disgraced our country to the world and spat upon our fallen.
I can't help but think this is the part Nazi in him that hates the fact that we won the two WW's. What a total disgrace he is.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Churchill's grandson weighs in on canceled Trump and FLOTUS American cemetery visit in France
They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldnt even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen
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TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Obama walks in rain-soaked cemetery of U.S. war dead
By Alister Bull
November 11, 2009
President Barack Obama walked in the rain among the graves of U.S. casualties from the Iraq and Afghan wars at Arlington National Cemetery and took an unscheduled detour into section 60, a thicket of simple white headstones, to mark Veterans Day. OBAMA/
Underscoring the poignancy of the visit, Obama was due to hold a war council later on Wednesday as he tries to decide whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, where U.S. forces experienced their bloodiest month in October.
The president, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, bent down briefly at the headstone of 19-year-old Specialist Ross McGinnis, who was awarded the United States highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.
The first couple, bareheaded and ignoring the miserable weather, spoke and shook hands with visitors they found by the gravesides, one of whom Michelle Obama hugged.
George II
(67,782 posts)debsy
(530 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)but MUCH, MUCH more of A MAN than the pathetic, idiotic mushroom baby..
Response to George II (Reply #13)
demigoddess This message was self-deleted by its author.
n/t
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)and crying because the death of Daniel was so devastating his father died 6 months later. I cry because my father and three of his brother served in World War II, I cried because 8 of my cousins served in Vietnam and fucking Donald Trump is only concerned that we may see his bald head.
So many gave so much and he doesn't care.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i'm still really trying to deal with the fact that such truly bad people are running my country.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and blood. Man, this guy is a wimp. The pretend tough guy routine is falling apart.
debsy
(530 posts)... but he needs to respect nary a soul - except for Poo-tin. He is the lowest of all forms of life.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)since most all WWI vets are gone and it's raining, so they canceled.
I wonder how many high-risk military missions in helicopters get canceled due to rain...... ......
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)May have gotten a little wet.. It is rough out there..
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)they don't care about millions of Americans that have to drive that far to work every day in all sorts of weather.
And, I'll bet tRump wouldn't hesitate to drive 50-miles to make a golf game.....
I guess he's scared of all that French stuff.......
jpak
(41,759 posts)Fucking Snowflake.
But the AMVETS, and Legion still love him!
usaf-vet
(6,207 posts)Him and his hair are his only concerns.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)Thread won.
jpak
(41,759 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)Chickenshit poser.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)he has to be there in person to command the delegation is IS going to the cemetery. They'll set up a command center at the nearest golf course.
Commander in chief, ya know......
GopherGal
(2,009 posts)obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)Fuck Trump and Melania.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)As one of the witches exposed in the Mueller "witch hunt", he is afraid of
m. e. l. t. i. n. g!
catbyte
(34,447 posts)[IMG][/IMG]
George II
(67,782 posts)True Dough
(17,320 posts)http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1029767235787/
^^^Trump couldn't show that sort of indebtedness to fallen troops if he tried.
George II
(67,782 posts)Thanks!
He pointedly took down his umbrella when he reached that line in his speech.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211408429
True Dough
(17,320 posts)No snowflake!
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)remember, it's less than two years and we get this piece of garbage out of office. As we can see from the numbers in the latest election (won 71% of the contests vs. rump's (loser!) pathetic loss of 29%). We need to keep hammering him and remind him of this loss constantly.
To those whose family members served in Europe during WWI and their loved ones didn't return, I thank you humbly for your family member's military service and beg forgiveness for rump's ignorant action(s). RIP.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)Rouge Bouquet
by Joyce Kilmer
In a wood they call Rouge Bouquet
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick
Yet covered with earth 10 meters thick.
There lie many fighting men,
Dead in their youthful prime,
Never to laugh nor love again
Nor taste the Summertime.
For Death came flying through the air
And stopped his flight at the dugout stair,
Touched his prey and left them there,
Clay to clay.
He hid their bodies stealthily
In the soil of the land they fought to free
And fled away.
Now over the grave abrupt and clear
Three volleys ring;
And perhaps their brave young spirits hear
The bugles sing:
"Go to sleep!
Go to sleep!
Slumber well where the shell screamed and fell.
Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor,
You will not need them any more.
Danger's past;
Now at last,
Go to sleep!"
There is on earth no worthier grave
To hold the bodies of the brave
Than this place of pain and pride
Where they nobly fought and nobly died.
Never fear but in the skies
Saints and angels stand
Smiling with their holy eyes
On this new-come band.
St. Michael's sword darts through the air
and touches the aureole on his hair
As he sees them stand saluting there,
His stalwart sons:
And Patrick, Brigid, Columkill
Rejoice that in veins of warriors still
The Gael's blood runs.
And up to Heaven's doorway floats,
From the wood called Rouge Bouquet,
A delicate cloud of bugle notes
That softly say:
"Farewell!
Farewell!
Comrades true, born anew, peace to you!
Your souls shall be where the heroes are
And your memory shine like the morning-star.
Brave and dear,
Shield us here.
Farewell!"
The American poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), best known for his work Trees, published in 1914, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University and worked for the The New York Times. He joined the 165th Infantry Regiment, (Fighting 69th), one of four infantry regiments in the 27th "New York" Division of the American Expeditionary Force of WW I. He quickly attained the rank of sergeant, attached to the newly organized Regimental Intelligence Staff. He was encouraged to go to Officer Candidate School and accept a commission but he said he would rather be a sergeant in the 69th than an officer in any other unit in the Army. On July 30th 1918, while gathering intelligence for the regiment during the battle of the Ourcq, he was shot in the head. He was 31 years old, and is buried in France, in the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery. He had married the poet Aline Murray Kilmer (1888-1941) in 1908 and the couple had five children, two daughters and three sons.
When Sgt. Kilmer was killed in action, he and Aline had been married for only a decade; their children ranged from ages one to nine. Aline Kilmer never remarried; five lines from her poem Sanctuary are engraved on her tombstone:
There all bright passing beauty is held forever
Free from the sense of tears, to be loved without regret
There we shall find at their source music and love and laughter,
Colour and subtle fragrance and soft incredible textures:
Be sure we shall find what our weary hearts desire
calimary
(81,466 posts)Theyre better off with him NOT there.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)But the sacrifice of the WW I generation deserves to be remembered; as many scholars have noted, the Great War ended one era in Western (and World) history and began another, and we still live with the reverberations of the conflict.
As the historian Dan Fromkin wrote, the results of Versailles was A Peace to End All Peace.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)Maybe he figured that hed wind up like the Wicked Witch of the West if he had to stand out in the rain?
Im melting!!! Im melting!!! Oh what a world... what a world...
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)Or is that just holy water that does that?
ooky
(8,929 posts)water gets on her.
For him the water will mess up his yellow wig.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Worthless scumbag. I wouldn't want him anywhere except in jail.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)Or did he used to spend the winters in Aruba, Jamaica, etc.?
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)Note that his golf weekends in winter are spent in FL, and in NJ in summer.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)and knows he will melt if he gets wet.
AdamGG
(1,294 posts)Since a hail of bullets is nothing to him, you'd think that a little rain (that everyone else was able to attend in) couldn't stop Orange Rambo from showing up at a minor event like the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Disgraceful!
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)If a Democrat President did that - ohhh the howling and outrage.
Vogon_Glory
(9,128 posts)Was looking cross-wise at Donnie before he left the White House?
(Not that I blame Old Tippecanoe for doing so)
underpants
(182,877 posts)Texin
(2,597 posts)Despicable piece of shit should be explained to by one of his generals that service men and women serve and die in the rain on the field of combat for that rotten piece of shit masquerading as the POTUS*.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Golden showers are ok
George II
(67,782 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Also see catbyte's pic in reply #27.
IIRC, Obama was attacked as disrespectful, because he was not at Arlington National Cemetery instead.
President Obama delivers remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Memorial Day, 2010.
Link to tweet
Absolute torrential downpour at an England rugby match today. Didn't seem to put off Prince Harry who didn't even require an umbrella. However, he knows the value of sacrifice and respect.
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@realDonaldTrump cares nothing for our military!
#DraftDodger #CadetBoneSpurs
Canceled a trip to a #Veterans cemetery. But other world leaders went!
Here's @JustinTrudeau at the cemetery demonstrating the use of an UMBRELLA
#UNFITFOROFFICE
#StopTrump
#TrumpCrimeFamily
Link to tweet
Full disclosure:
That video is from Dieppe WWII ceremony last year. But he did attend WWI today and tomorrow. Still makes point 45 is weaksauce.
Link to tweet
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)than the real reason:
He was afraid that he might be asked an embarrassing question by reporters he can't insult back.
Or that or he may be confronted with protesters.
fucking snowflake.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)neohippie
(1,142 posts)Football players are unpatriotic for kneeling in protest, but a commander scared of a little rain is?