Trump, you’re a drip... fury after he cancels visit
DONALD Trump was slammed by MPs from all sides after he scrapped his visit to a war cemetery because it was raining.
The US President was in France for commemorations but axed a trip to a US military cemetery on Saturday because of the bad weather.
Tory Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood, who was a captain in the Royal Green Jackets, tweeted: “Rain was a regular feature on the Western Front. Thankfully it did not prevent our brave heroes from doing their job.”
Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith told Sky News: “When you think of the sacrifice that people made. People up and down the country and across Europe, whatever their political views, do think that it’s very important that we mark what happened.
“I think that was a serious misjudgment from him about the mood across Europe.”
Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Tom Tugendhat, a Tory MP who was an Army colonel, said: “All I’ll say is I spent four years in Afghanistan and I don’t remember operations being cancelled when it rained, I don’t remember us refusing to soldier because the weather was inclement.”
SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, retweeted a message saying: “None of this is surprising. Doesn’t make it any less dismaying. It’s worth a trip in a limo and a few words from under a tarpaulin.”
Winston Churchill’s grandson, Conservative Sir Nicholas Soames, said: “They died with their face to the foe and the pathetic and inadequate Donald Trump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to the fallen.” He eventually made the trip yesterday. Trump never served in the armed forces, despite America introducing conscription and a draft for the Vietnam War.
As a University of Pennsylvania student, he was able to avoid conscription through a series of student deferments, as well as in 1969 for a bone spur in his foot. The condition mysteriously disappeared without treatment.