Trump Blows Off Veterans Observance

Yet he's good for a game of golf in the rain.

I reckon he wanted to look pretty for his Master, didn't want his (whatever that is on the top of his head) getting wet.

To be fair: he didn't take the bus like the rabble of the other heads of states/governments today nor did he walk with them.

This is such a politically stupid thing to do.... I don't understand it. Doesn't Trump have an adviser who can tell him "Sir, you are about to look like an asshole... just stand here and be respectful"?

When I wrote about this on a different thread yesterday, I got a plausible, all-encompassing answer:

Didn't he fly to France (at presumably great expense) solely for the purpose of going to this ceremony? Pictures of the previous President standing in the rain for veterans are making the rounds.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
-Bob Dylan

You must admit that playing golf when it's raining looks smarter!

He fired all those people, or they quit (if they were ever there in the first place).

Didn't he show up the next day, when he could have the spotlight to himself?

Not there but he visited the Suresnes American Cemetery today.




(Screenshot from French tv)

Trump is the personification of everything the founders feared could happen when they crafted the Constitution. I’m profoundly embarrassed.

Stop the rain.

Trump has been gently mocked by the official Twitter account of the French army.



Using the hashtag #MondayMotivation, they posted a picture of a soldier training, with the caption: Il y a de la pluie, mais c’est pas grave ("It is raining, but it’s not serious.")

#45 not going to Arlington this afternoon as originally scheduled


can't be bothered with respect for active duty troops, veterans or those that died protecting the US and its allies

And I bet you were right there wringing your hands when Obama was accused of disrespecting the troops.Hypocrite.

Don't be ridiculous......the only time Trump cheered up was when Putin showed up to the ceremonies in Paris. That foolish man thinks he can make friends with dictators....and they welcome him because they know a sucker when they see one.

Let me guess, you were as equally bereft when you imagined Obama 'disrespected' the troops as you are embarrassed over Trumps' lackluster appearance, because he could not be the center of attention. He could not be cajoled to honor the American war dead buried in France.......it was planned for the hour and day one hundred years prior when the guns went silent......Let's face it, Trump is a 72 year old adolescent who deeply resents anyone (including our soldiers who died in the Great War) getting moire attention then Numero Zero.

Just how am I being ridiculous?

You guessed wrong.

I don't make much of these silly accusations of slighting the troops, whether it was with Obama or Trump.

Pardon me, you think Trump was presidential when he decided to pout and sulk in his room. He was tinkling on the graves of the people who fought for our freedom. He couldn't be bothered.

Well, you've once again demonstrated your partisanship, unless you can offer up a condemnation, of yours, of one of the many times Obama disrespected the troops.

This is a silly hypocritical game in which you obviously are happy to indulge.