Well, this is an easy one to figure out.
As Commander in Chief, the President has final say on military protocols and traditions of all kinds.
If the President wants to salute, the President salutes.
The President can never be wrong in regards to something like this. He is the final authority.
Exactly. And Hitlery and her folks should understand that all of us who served know that she held the military in contempt before she didn't (if she ever didn't). We are Chelsea's trained pigs, remember. She can practice all she wants. It is not the execution that counts so much as the spirit of the thing.