'He is a disgrace': President Trump faces a delug

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'He is a disgrace': President Trump faces a deluge of criticism for skipping a memorial ceremony honoring fallen American Marines who died in World War One because of the RAIN

Sad and disgraceful. Trump will never live it down among decent and honorable people, two qualities he reveals the absence of within himself daily.

•President Donald Trump called off a a trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial on Saturday
•He and the first lady had planned to visit the memorial for American marines near the Belleau Wood

•The event was cancelled at the last minute due to a storm that would have prevented them from helicoptering to the site that's more than an hour's drive from Paris
•Site honors marine brigades of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Division that fought the Germans in the woods in WWI

•Trumps are in Paris at the invitation of the French president to attend events tied to the end of world war

•On Twitter, social media users blasted the President, calling him a 'disgrace' and a 'f*****g p****'
•Twitter users noted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took part in commemorative events in France on Saturday despite the weather

•Winston Churchill's grandson, British MP Nicholas Soames, called Trump a 'pathetic inadequate'

President Donald Trump was trashed on social media for canceling an appearance honoring fallen World War One soldiers at a U.S. military cemetery in France because of the weather.

Trump called off a a trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial on Saturday after a bad weather call grounded Marine One.

He and first lady Melania Trump had planned to visit the memorial for American marines near the Belleau Wood battlefield on Saturday afternoon, however their program was nixed at the last minute due to a storm that would have prevented them from helicoptering to the site that's more than an hour's drive from Paris.

'The President and First Lady’s trip to Ainse-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial has been canceled due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather,' the White House said.


'An American delegation led by Chief of Staff General John Kelly and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford will attend on their behalf.'

The site honors the 4th Marine Brigade of the United States Army’s 2nd Division and an attack it led on the Germans on June 6, 1918 that liberated the Bouresches.

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The 5th and 6th Marine Regiments also fought in Belleau Wood that month, with hostilities ending 20 days later on June 26.

According to the American Battle Monuments Commission, 8,100 soldiers died in the wooded area near Belleau, France that month.

Trump's decision to pull out of the memorial came under immediate scrutiny from Winston Churchill's politician grandson.

British MP Nicholas Soames said in a tweet that Trump 'is not fit to represent this great country' over the cancellation.

'They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen,' he said.

The White House's claim that logistical difficulties inhibited Trump wasn't accepted as an answer by some on the left side of the Atlantic, either.

Ben Rhodes, a former national security adviser to Barack Obama, said the Trump administration should have tried harder to get the sitting president to the memorial event.

'I helped plan all of President Obama’s trips for 8 years. There is always a rain option. Always,' he contended.

On Twitter, Trump's critics also blasted the American president.

Bill Kristol, a neoconservative commentator and prominent Trump critic, tweeted: 'On the Marine Corps' 243rd birthday, President Trump has cancelled, because of light rain, his long-planned attendance at the ceremony at Aisne-Marne, where Marines who fought at Belleau Wood are buried.

'The WH COS and JCS Chair will be there. The President couldn't be bothered.'

Donald Mackay tweeted a photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paying a visit to Vimy Ridge on Saturday, where he honored Canada's war dead.

'Doesn't look like the weather is too bad - at least not for a Canadian,' Mackay tweeted in the caption above the photo showing Trudeau and his aides.

Sarah Silverman, the liberal comedian, was blunt. She implicitly referenced Trump's draft deferments that he received enabling him to avoid service in Vietnam. 'Trump you f*****g p***y,' she tweeted.

'Too entitled to serve our country when called, too afraid of your stupid hair getting wet to honor those braver than you,' Silverman said. 'You F***. (Don’t @ me w/ he couldn’t fly- it was a 90 minute drive).'

Steve Schmidt, a former senior Republican Party operative who renounced his membership in the GOP over Trump, tweeted: 'The "Commander in Chief" disgraced the United States Marine Corps today.'

Former Pentagon official George Little said that Kelly, a retired marine general, couldn't have been pleased that Trump skipped the ceremony.

'I’ve walked American military cemeteries overseas with General John Kelly. I can’t imagine he’s thrilled with his boss today,' he said. 'In fact, I imagine he’s disgusted.'

David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and another Trump critic, also said, 'It's incredible that a president would travel to France for this significant anniversary - and then remain in his hotel room watching TV rather than pay in person his respects to the Americans who gave their lives in France for the victory gained 100 years ago tomorrow.'

Trump, Trudeau and other world leaders are in Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War.

To illustrate the contrast between Trump and other world leaders, Twitter users on Saturday shared video of Trudeau giving a speech in the rain, though the clip of the Canadian leader was from last year.

In August 2017, Trudeau flew to France to pay homage to the fallen soldiers who took part in the Dieppe raid.

Seventy-five years earlier, Nazi defenses pushed back an Allied assault on the port of Dieppe. Canadian soldiers bore the brunt of the casualties and losses.

In the clip, Trudeau is seen dropping his umbrella and allowing himself to be drenched by pouring rain.

'As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet and our hair gets wet and our shoes get wet, I think it's all the more fitting that we remember on that day, in Dieppe, the rain wasn't rain, it was bullets,' the Canadian prime minister said.

But the speech from a year ago was not made on Saturday as a response to Trump, as many on social media were led to believe.

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