Other leaders travel to cemetery by automobile

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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]

1. They don't call him Cadet Bone Spurs for nothing.

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2. Trump cancels visit to US cemetery because of 'poor weather'

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]

3. Just so awful.. he could not bring himself to pay respects to the fallen

My husband and I are beyond shocked right now..

[MineralMan]

4. What a vile, ineffective man!

He has no sense of where he is and what this weekend means. He is an idiot of the first order.

[Codeine]

5. What a dickhead. nt

[Hortensis]

6. His presence would have dishonored this ceremony.

Everyone knew it would have been pure hypocrisy. I prefer it this way.

[blogslut]

7. Well, after all, Donald's grandfather was a draft dodger.

[badhair77]

8. Very disappointing.

And yet last week trump said he could never forgive President Obama for what he did to the military. He doesn’t care about our soldiers.

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9. Decision to cancel cemetery visit creates a storm of its own

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

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10. Trump cancels visit to U.S. military cemetery

By David Nakamura ,
Seung Min Kim and
James McAuley November 10 at 11:32 AM

... “It’s 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 Macron’s 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]

11. a weak, disrespectful brat!

He's simply shameful.

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

12. Bet he had tantrum about not being able to heli in

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 Acosta’d him out of the way. He rode the golf cart while everyone else walked. If the helicopter ride was out, he’d 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