Saturday, November 24, 2018

Don't Be So Quick To Blame Trump's No-Show At WWI Ceremony On The President Himself

Don't Be So Quick To Blame Trump's No-Show At WWI Ceremony On The President Himself
Excerpt: President Trump is taking a serious shellacking in the media and on social media for the cancelation of a planned trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. The site is located roughly 55 miles outside of Paris. The optics of missing such an important event are undeniably bad and they play into other narratives about the President that are unflattering, but these types of decisions are not usually up to the President. The Secret Service and the White House Military Office who arrange presidential airlift with HMX-1 are the ones that decide to cancel helicopter or ground transportation for the President due to a wide variety of contingencies.

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