President Trump has been roundly criticized for skipping a veterans event in France over the weekend, and on Tuesday, a retired Army officer offered a particularly scathing assessment of the affair.
Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general who served as former President Bill Clinton's Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, told MSNBC's Brian Williams Tuesday that Trump skipping the event in France was "insulting." The president did so simply because he wanted to "stay out of the rain, eat cheeseburgers, watch TV, and tweet angry denunciations of his many enemies," said McCaffrey, per Mediaite.
Trump was in France with other world leaders to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, and he was scheduled to visit a cemetery where American soldiers are buried but canceled at the last minute. The White House at the time cited the rainy weather, saying it would not be safe to travel by helicopter, reports The New York Times. Trump days later threw the Secret Service under the bus, saying he wanted to travel to the event by car but they wouldn't let him.
But McCaffrey, an outspoken critic of Trump who has previously called him a "serious threat to U.S. national security," doesn't buy that explanation, and thinks Trump stayed home out of pure laziness. Watch McCaffrey's comments below. Brendan Morrow
ShadowRiku667 on November 14th, 2018 at 17:00 UTC »
The rain was the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water
ins0ma_ on November 14th, 2018 at 15:17 UTC »
Between the president’s disrespect for the fallen soldiers of WWI, and the BS deployments of active duty soldiers to the southern border that he’s seemingly forgotten about, it should be clear to all that he only values our military when it suits him.
MonsieurGideon on November 14th, 2018 at 15:11 UTC »
This is when the right goes "So did a lot of people!" and then we have to remind them that people who sit at home pigging out and watching TV are NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.