“President Biden traveled to Normandy, France this week to attend the remembrance ceremony for American troops who died on D-Day in 1944. Donald Trump, however, won't be able to attend because convicted felons are largely forbidden travel to the European Union until they have served their sentence.”
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Trump Unable to Attend Normandy D-Day Memorial Due to Travel Restrictions for Felons
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“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.”
FROM:
THE ATLANTIC
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
By Jeffrey Goldberg September 3, 2020
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