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babylonsister

(171,092 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:34 AM Nov 2018

Trump Skipped Veterans Remembrance Ceremony Because He 'Did Not Want to Disrupt Paris Traffic'

Uh huh. Since when has he ever been considerate of anyone else?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-skipped-veterans-remembrance-ceremony-because-he-did-not-want-to-disrupt-paris-traffic?ref=home

Trump Skipped Veterans Remembrance Ceremony Because He ‘Did Not Want to Disrupt Paris Traffic’
Reuters / Christian Hartmann


Donald Trump, who was widely ridiculed for not attending a Saturday event honoring U.S. military dead in France due to rainy weather, did not travel to the commemoration by car because he didn’t want to disrupt the traffic in Paris, the White House claimed late Sunday. The president had been scheduled to lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery and memorial at Belleau, about 60 miles northeast of Paris, and the White House cited rain that grounded the president’s helicopter for the cancellation. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement Sunday that noted the weather and “near-zero visibility” as well as concerns that a motorcade on short notice would have required closing roads to traffic. British lawmaker Nicholas Soames, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, tweeted Saturday: “They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen.”
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DrDan

(20,411 posts)
1. Oh bullcrap - we have been in the area for the past week
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:42 AM
Nov 2018

Or more. Cloudy and drizzly - no wind, no steady rain - only drizzle. Fog in am but with plenty of visibility.

She is lying her butt off.

Arkansas Granny

(31,530 posts)
6. They're lying, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying and they tell more lies anyway
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:56 AM
Nov 2018

Is that a mental condition or do they just not give a shit?

Vinca

(50,304 posts)
5. That's a half baked excuse if I ever heard one.
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:55 AM
Nov 2018

He's a self-centered pig who didn't want his candy cotton hair to get wet and his orange coloring to run. End of story.

marble falls

(57,223 posts)
8. Doesn't seem to care about traffic anywhere else. He lost his lucky umbrella when it wouldn't ...
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 08:13 AM
Nov 2018

close and he left it on the ramp is the real reason.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
11. More BS & flat out LIES: "rain that grounded the president's helicopter"...
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 08:28 AM
Nov 2018

It was an ALL weather helicopter sort like what the Coast Guard uses. If these things can fly in a friggin HURRICANE the rain in France would have been a piece of cake.



If all the other world leaders could make it, than so the hell could he.

blugbox

(951 posts)
12. Slanders described it as "near zero visability"...
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 08:42 AM
Nov 2018

She expects us to believe it was even worse weather than the video you posted?? How did everyone else make it without a hitch then?

raging moderate

(4,308 posts)
13. Keep trying, White House.
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 08:57 AM
Nov 2018

They are throwing different things against the wall to see which lie will stick to the wall.

 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
16. so, if I have this right:
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 09:33 AM
Nov 2018

1) it was unsafe 'cause rain;
2) it was unsafe 'cause cloud cover;
3) it was donnie boy being courteous to others and not wanting to disrupt traffic.




hmmm. I'm going with 4) none of the above.

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