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Armistice Day: White House defends Trump WW1 no-show
BBC News ^ | November 12th 2018 | BBC News

Posted on 11/12/2018 8:14:04 AM PST by Ennis85

The White House has defended US President Donald Trump's decision to miss a memorial event on Saturday after he faced a backlash.

Mr Trump, who was in France to mark the centenary of World War One's end, cancelled a visit to a US military cemetery because it was raining.

Bad weather and "near-zero visibility" grounded the presidential helicopter, White House officials said.

French, German and Canadian leaders attended memorial events on Saturday.

However, Mr Trump was reluctant to bring extra disruption to Paris traffic for a last-minute motorcade, his officials said.

"President Trump did not want to cause that kind of unexpected disruption to the city and its people," press secretary Sarah Sanders said, noting the trip was 60 miles (96km) north-east of Paris.

Mr Trump spent much of Saturday at the American ambassador's residence, and visited another US cemetery in a Paris suburb on Sunday.

Critics observed how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had travelled 118 miles outside Paris to attend a ceremony - in the rain - at a cemetery in Vimy.

Notable criticism came from British Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood, who took an apparent swipe at the president on Twitter, saying "rain did not prevent our brave heroes from doing their job".

His comments followed a scathing rebuke from Sir Nicholas Soames, a grandson of the wartime British leader Sir Winston Churchill.

The MP tweeted that Mr Trump was not fit to represent the US and said that he was a "pathetic inadequate" for not defying the weather "to pay his respects to the fallen".

https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1061341121723408384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1061341121723408384&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-46179291

https://twitter.com/NSoames/status/1061270124404113408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1061270124404113408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-46179291

The US president also received backlash from Americans, such as former Secretary of State John Kerry, who said "raindrops" should not have stopped his visit.

Ben Rhodes, who served as a deputy national security adviser under former US President Barack

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 100thanniversary; armisticeday; france; macron; trump; trumpvisit; wwi
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1 posted on 11/12/2018 8:14:04 AM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Smartasses everywhere I tell you.


2 posted on 11/12/2018 8:16:00 AM PST by Ennis85
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We in America could care less what the Eurotwits and the American commiecrats say about this.

The President was RIGHT to stay safe and to not want to disrupt the traffic at the last minute.

I for one am very very glad his security people convinced him to not attend the ceremony. Thank you, Mr. President, for heeding that advice.


3 posted on 11/12/2018 8:17:26 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Ennis85

Unbiased answers.

Should he have gone or was it ok not to.

I don’t know much about protocol or how important this visit has historically been.

I have no context so I am asking those who do.

Thanks.

I gave up trying to hide how little I know a long time ago :)


4 posted on 11/12/2018 8:19:13 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Ennis85

The libs would have loved for an incident with the air transport. Too bad, so sad, you’re not glad.


5 posted on 11/12/2018 8:20:53 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Ennis85
His comments followed a scathing rebuke from Sir Nicholas Soames, a grandson of the wartime British leader Sir Winston Churchill.

Stuff it you accident-of-birth.

6 posted on 11/12/2018 8:21:03 AM PST by Flick Lives
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And if he had disrupted Paris with the motorcade, they would have bitched about that, too.

He can’t win.


7 posted on 11/12/2018 8:23:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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President Trump would be far better off not explaining or defending any trivial protestations from little people.


8 posted on 11/12/2018 8:23:33 AM PST by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: dp0622
Should he have gone or was it ok not to.

No matter what Pre. Trump did or did not do, he would have been criticized. If he flew in the rain, the press would have screamed that he endangered the flight crew as a bear "stunt". If he traveled by motorcade, he would have been criticized for snarling up traffic for a "photo op".

Meanwhile, Macaroon or whatever the f' the Frenchie P.M. is called politicized the event with some critique of Trump that included incoherent remarks of about patriotism good and nationalism bad. And the press goes wild.

9 posted on 11/12/2018 8:26:33 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

Wow.

That was a good answer.

I HATE that i don’t think of these things.


10 posted on 11/12/2018 8:29:18 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Ennis85

Screw ‘em.

They won’t accept, or be placated by, any explanation.

Move on.


11 posted on 11/12/2018 8:29:25 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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> Mr Trump was reluctant to bring extra disruption to Paris traffic for a last-minute motorcade, his officials said. <

Miss an important ceremony to honor the war dead over traffic concerns? That doesn’t sound quite right. There’s got to be more to this story. Maybe there was some kind of threat to Trump’s safety?


12 posted on 11/12/2018 8:30:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Anybody who’s been to a presidential event knows the amount of sheer HAVOC a presidential motorcade can cause. Two-mile cordons on highways, local traffic diverted, etc.


13 posted on 11/12/2018 8:31:11 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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The Ben Rhodes twitter thread is particularly nauseating with all the Kennedy worship I’m seeing on there.


14 posted on 11/12/2018 8:32:52 AM PST by Ennis85
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To: Arm_Bears

Thousands upon thousands of American war dead to save their sorry wine soaked cheese fattened asses in three wars (Remember Vietnam was also French Indo-China) and they have DeGaulle /snicker to insult our president and thereby all of us by remarks like that. I say screw them and let them chill in their own vichyssoise.


15 posted on 11/12/2018 8:39:16 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Ennis85
The US president also received backlash from Americans, such as former Secretary of State John Kerry, who

Slunk away like a dog with his tail between his legs back when the Swift Boat Veterans showed up
16 posted on 11/12/2018 8:41:35 AM PST by uncbob
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a scathing rebuke from Sir Nicholas Soames, a grandson of the wartime British leader Sir Winston Churchill.

Yeah Churchill that military genius whose decisions cost so many lives
17 posted on 11/12/2018 8:44:59 AM PST by uncbob
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I got to hear him speak in Paris yesterday, which was very good. For some reason, the leaders from France, Germany and Canada weren’t there, which was even better.


18 posted on 11/12/2018 9:01:06 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Don Corleone

We deceived them into fighting to contain communism in Indochina (they had no money or political will to fight the war), then abandoned them at Dien Bien Phu. That is why they left NATO and developed their own nukes (creating Godzilla in the process); they haven’t been invaded since!


19 posted on 11/12/2018 9:11:43 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dp0622

Wow.

That was a good answer.

I HATE that i don’t think of these things.

It’s easy to write like a lib reporter. Just follow these easy rules...
Rule 1. Everything Trump does is wrong.
Rule 2. There are no other rules.


20 posted on 11/12/2018 1:38:58 PM PST by Flick Lives
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