White House decision to cancel veteran's cemetery on France visit creates a storm of its own

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48. Looks like folks at Military.com are not to happy either....

President Under Fire After Canceling WWI Cemetery Visit Due to Weather
10 Nov 2018
Agence France Presse
By Clare Byrne and Francis Curta

Link: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/11/10/president-under-fire-after-cancelling-wwi-cemetery-visit-due-weather.html

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The cancellation drew derision from some critics, with several suggesting he was afraid of messing up his hair and others noting that the rain had not stopped French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel or Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from visiting memorials.

"They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen," tweeted Nicholas Soames, a British Conservative member of parliament and grandson of Winston Churchill.

"Donald Trump complained about having to stand in the rain, to speak about the massacre in Pittsburgh, because it messed his hair up (more)," the VoteVets veterans lobby group tweeted. "Today, he will skip honoring fallen American heroes of WWI, and stay in his hotel room, because of some rain."
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Trump was compared unfavorably by some to his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. "Unlike Trump, a little rain never stopped President Obama from honoring our fallen war heroes on Veterans Day," former Pentagon official Adam Blickstein tweeted along with a picture of Obama carrying a wreath at a rain-soaked remembrance ceremony.

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