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Trump claims that “he called home, talked to my wife and said, ‘I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.’ And the one that was the day after I went. I said I feel really bad. And that was the end. “
Facts first: Melania Trump was on the same trip with the president and was scheduled to attend the cemetery tour. She was not in the United States.
That night, Trump and Melania went to a dinner together hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
When the decision was made to cancel the Aisne-Marne cemetery visit, no aide warned Trump that it would malfunction, which later blamed General John Kelly and one of Kelly’s top aides, Zach Fuentes. A person familiar with the postmortem discussions said Trump accused them of “screwing him up” by failing to predict the inevitable consequences.
Still, attendees said at the time that Trump did not push to attend the ceremony after being told he couldn’t fly there in the helicopter and that traveling by caravan would prove logistically difficult.
Kelly later replaced Trump on the cemetery visit.
Instead of the visit, Trump spent hours that Saturday afternoon in hiding watching television inside the U.S. ambassador’s residence, people familiar with the situation said.
