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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