{"id":12611,"date":"2020-09-03T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12611"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:24:27","slug":"the-real-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12611","title":{"rendered":"The real Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <i>Atlantic<\/i> piece is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers\/615997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must-read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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 \u201cthe helicopter couldn\u2019t fly\u201d and that the Secret Service wouldn\u2019t drive him there. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Neither claim was true<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump rejected the idea of the visit because <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain<\/span>, 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, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">\u201cWhy should I go to that cemetery? It\u2019s filled with losers.\u201d<\/span> 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 <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">\u201csuckers\u201d<\/span> for getting killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously: There is no more important business before the country than putting that pile of sewage out of office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Atlantic piece is a must-read. 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 \u201cthe helicopter couldn\u2019t fly\u201d and that the Secret Service &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12612,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions\/12612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}