It is really interesting (and not surprising) to see the excuses given by the usual suspects in the media...
The best one will be...
“The visual certainly doesn’t look good, but he meant well...At least he didn’t fall like Ford did back in the day, how embarrassing THAT was!!!”
I’d personally (if I were their NCO, or Officer in Charge of that detachment) I would have called them in in the first place and let them know first of all that they did their jobs, they did it well, and let the visual of this insult fall on the boss, and not let it get “you” down...
Your not necessarily saluting the man, you are saluting the office, which is more important than the temporary occupant who insults all of us...Blow it off and let’s keep doing our job...
And bizarre to see pospotus drinking out of styrofoam.