11/10/18: President Trump, in France to mark the anniversary of the end of World War I, decides if it’s raining he can’t be bothered to visit a cemetery to honor the dead.
Aides later insist rain made it impossible for Marine One to operate safely and the president (always concerned for others!), worried that a motorcade would have been “disruptive” for the French.
Trump hung out at the U.S. embassy for four-and-a-half hours. In his stead White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the trip…via motorcade.
This desire to avoid rain, or sleet or snow, or heat, or any kind of physical discomfort or exertion in service to country, is a Trump Family tradition. Let others sweat and shiver and bleed for their country.
Trumps don’t get damp if they can avoid it.
The president’s decision to remain behind ignites a firestorm of condemnation. Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, speaking of the millions of war dead, tweets: “They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate [man] couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen.”
The best reaction of all comes from a French weather forecaster….
Somehow, the rain does not keep Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron or German Chancellor Angela
Merkel from visiting the cemetery.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (9/10/20) This story explodes in the news again, when reports surface that the president called Marines killed in World War I “suckers” and “losers” because they died for this country. (See: 9/5/20; 9/6/20, 9/7/20.)
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