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Posted: 11/10/2018 6:47:40 PM EDT
Trump skips WW I cemetery visit due to wet weather, kicking up a storm of its own
The White House’s decision on Saturday to scrap President Trump’s visit to a cemetery for fallen American soldiers due to weather irked more than a few observers, including those who have served their country in the military. Trump, who is in France to commemorate the end, 100 years ago, of World War I, was scheduled to take a 30-minute helicopter ride from Paris to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau, France. But a rainy forecast for the area made it too risky for him to safely fly there, the White House said a couple hours before the president was to arrive at the ceremony. “The President and First Lady’s trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial has been canceled due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather,” the White House announced. White House chief of staff John Kelly and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the roughly 50-mile long trip to the cemetery in a small motorcade of vehicles, ABC News reported. The drive took about 90 minutes each way. Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled a similar distance by car to a World War I commemorative event in northern France, according to several media reports. On Sunday, Trump is scheduled to visit American graves at Suresnes, and will give remarks, Bloomberg White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted. But as for Saturday’s miss, “an unforced error... the military could have made this happen... there’s always a Plan B,” said retired Adm. James Stavridis, in an interview on MSNBC, citing the poor optics around Trump’s cancelation. Most of the criticism stressed the rough conditions suffered by soldiers and sailors in the Great War — which claimed an estimated 40 million military and civilian casualties — and in all conflicts before and since. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-skips-ww-i-cemetery-visit-due-to-wet-weather-kicking-up-a-storm-of-its-own-2018-11-10?siteid=rss&rss=1 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 6:59:22 PM EDT
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The weather is too poor to safely fly?
It takes 90 minutes to drive 50 miles. Yeah, l can see the Secret Service not liking that idea. Sounds like bitches looking for something to bitch about. TDS is hell. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:00:34 PM EDT
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I know it sucks and everything, but the safety of the President should be first priority.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:06:32 PM EDT
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He's in enemy territory. Very good call.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:07:58 PM EDT
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The weather is too poor to safely fly? It takes 90 minutes to drive 50 miles. Yeah, l can see the Secret Service not liking that idea. Sounds like bitches looking for something to bitch about. TDS is hell. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:08:22 PM EDT
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Praise the wisdom of KEK.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:08:49 PM EDT
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Anything to bash Trump, anything...
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:09:19 PM EDT
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This after France said they needed an Euro army in part because of the US.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:09:23 PM EDT
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Yep, I would bet it has zero to do with Trump not wanting to be there and much to do with SS keeping him safe in a hostile world...
 ETA: OP, why haven't you become a regular in the never_trump fail thread? You would fit right in there and those guys would eat up all that horse shit you post everyday....You would be a hero to the zero's...
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:09:26 PM EDT
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OP never fails to deliver failure.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:10:05 PM EDT
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OP never fails to deliver failure. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:12:09 PM EDT
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I know it sucks and everything, but the safety of the President should be first priority. Another flight to visit war graves that went badly. Polish Crash |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:13:29 PM EDT
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Can you imagine the logistical nightmare of a 50 mile drive in a foreign country? Especially France which has always been a hotbed of Muslim terrorists. Fuck, a 10 mile drive here in the US requires all roads and intersecting roadways to be totally blocked and cleared and a motorcade the size of a Battalion convoy.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:14:33 PM EDT
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The weather is too poor to safely fly? It takes 90 minutes to drive 50 miles. Yeah, l can see the Secret Service not liking that idea. Sounds like bitches looking for something to bitch about. TDS is hell. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:14:36 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them?
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:16:32 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:18:35 PM EDT
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... because there was a war going on? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:22:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ... because there was a war going on?  British war graves in Libya desecrated by Salafi militants |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:22:39 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? (facepalm) |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:28:31 PM EDT
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Think about the men that were buried at sea in the pacific during WWII....
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:28:54 PM EDT
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The weather wouldn't have grounded just Trump. We see even with the rallies here in the US there is generally surveillance air craft that checks the route, circles the entire time the President is on site, and checks the route back. Not only that but if the plan was to fly, then the ground route would not have been cleared. Safety concerns all the way around.
The title makes it sound like a little drizzle and Trump said, "No thanks, I'll just stay inside where it is dry and warm". |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:31:45 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:32:11 PM EDT
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Maybe there's a credible threat, like in the Philippines last year, that prolonged vehicle ride, on routes that haven't been cleared, prevented him from going.
I think DJT is the kind of man that doesn't let little things like the weather get in his way. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:32:43 PM EDT
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DBAP, Mr Trump.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:33:26 PM EDT
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Can you imagine the logistical nightmare of a 50 mile drive in a foreign country? Especially France which has always been a hotbed of Muslim terrorists. Fuck, a 10 mile drive here in the US requires all roads and intersecting roadways to be totally blocked and cleared and a motorcade the size of a Battalion convoy. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:33:58 PM EDT
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I was thinking the other day with Europe going down hill with anti american feelings why not just bring Our Men home? I know the logistics and cost but they deserve it. Remember the British cemetery in Libya that was desecrated? When will the American cemeteries fall to the same fate?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WmeKksOf_IQuote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: ... because there was a war going on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WmeKksOf_IThose people over there are a bunch of cocksuckers. 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:36:14 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:36:22 PM EDT
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OP never fails to deliver failure. 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:36:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:39:28 PM EDT
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This is now a poopthread.jpg
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:40:03 PM EDT
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He didn't want to get his hair wet...
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:42:37 PM EDT
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OP is a retard and doesnt know how to think
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:43:27 PM EDT
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.... since you are so disappointed in Trump, which dem have you settled on supporting in 2020? |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:43:29 PM EDT
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No idea about the route he would need to take but French country roads tend to be windy and shit going through all sorts of small villages.
Im sure the SS would positivly jump for joy at slowly driving the president of the USA around tight snakeing roads in a foreign country.  When Obama was here they closed down whole freeways and acces ramps etc. Logistical nightmare to suddely have an American president driving around. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:46:12 PM EDT
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i'm gay |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:48:05 PM EDT
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more from the never trumper continuing to smear Trump's image since you are so disappointed in Trump, which dem have you settled on supporting in 2020? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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.... since you are so disappointed in Trump, which dem have you settled on supporting in 2020? |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:49:29 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them?
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:56:07 PM EDT
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The SS made the right call on this.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:56:14 PM EDT
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Just when I thought OP had a dumb post.....I come and read this.....holy shit the derp Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 7:56:36 PM EDT
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His bone spurs must have been acting up... again.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:04:04 PM EDT
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His bone spurs must have been acting up... again. 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:11:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:17:51 PM EDT
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? Because there were no floating refrigerators to bring home all the decomposing corpses. Because flying them home would have required thousands of flights and those resources were needed to defeat the Nazis. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:22:13 PM EDT
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Yep. Huge security issue. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The weather is too poor to safely fly? It takes 90 minutes to drive 50 miles. Yeah, l can see the Secret Service not liking that idea. Sounds like bitches looking for something to bitch about. TDS is hell. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:23:28 PM EDT
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Because it was the 1940s. Because there were no floating refrigerators to bring home all the decomposing corpses. Because flying them home would have required thousands of flights and those resources were needed to defeat the Nazis. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why would you bury soldiers overseas where their families wouldnt be able to visit them? Because there were no floating refrigerators to bring home all the decomposing corpses. Because flying them home would have required thousands of flights and those resources were needed to defeat the Nazis. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:24:35 PM EDT
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Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled a similar distance by car to a World War I commemorative event in northern France, according to several media reports. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:25:11 PM EDT
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It’s a good thing OP is a under_score troll instead of a thoughtful, contributing member of this forum
Because if he were I’m sure he would have been locked by now. 
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:25:46 PM EDT
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Sorry your girl lost
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:26:22 PM EDT
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Woodrow Wilson would have went.
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:27:25 PM EDT
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Much ado about nothing.
As usual with the TDS types. |
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Posted: 11/10/2018 8:28:24 PM EDT
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OP you need to remember: Everything you read about Trump is negative Propaganda.
Don’t fall for it like a simpleton. |
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