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Apparently he didn't turn up to the dinner tonight with Macron, Merkel etc.

Maybe he started giving Nazi salutes in the hotel room when getting ready to leave for the memorial this morning and just couldn't stop?

I imagine normally they could just put an umbrella in the upraised hand, but since the plane door footage we all know he can't use one, so it's lost it's authenticity.

i imagine his no show is because he is pre-occupied with coming to the slow realisation that becoming president is possibly the worst decision he's made in his miserable life and doing so has put him and his children in serious legal jeopardy and there's not much he can do to stop it. that, and the fact that he has almost zero understanding of sacrifice or service. and hair.

I think you’re giving him too much credit. Realisation is not a word I would associate with Trump.

I did say slow...

From that I take it you mean slow, as in the formation of stalagmites slow?

Somewhere between that and the halflife of the proton;
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/proton.html

I’ve been watching the tv coverage of Remembrance Sunday and happened to come across this -
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world­/americas/us-politics/trump-paris-latest­-cancels-memorial-visit-us-military-ceme­tery-remembrance-world-war-one-a8627571.­html?ggg&utm_source=reddit.com

It is incredible that a head of state does not recognise the sacrifice that people have made to their country.

Words fail me in regards to Trump and I do not want to post what I actually think of him on this day when everyone should be thinking of the lost lives of those people who fought and died for us.

He’s a disgrace to humanity.

does not recognise

Does not want to either. He wants the willy-waving potential of a big military (+ the nuclear arsenal, finger on the button posturing) while regarding the people with the same contempt as when he dodged the draft years ago.

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump greeted one another during the World War I centenary commemorations in Paris, with the two leaders seen shaking hands and making other warm gestures during the event.
Although both leaders were late to the ceremony, they appeared to be happy to see each other upon their arrival. Putin and Trump were seen nodding at each other, with the Russian leader even tapping his US counterpart on the shoulder and offering up a thumbs up sign

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real? looks kinda photoshopped

absolutely real, couldn't believe it when I saw it

Someone said earlier in this thread that it is all about not wanting his hair to get wet. I reckon that is spot on.

100% this. And creepy makeup and fake tan - (does that run)

Frankly, in a country where even saying the word ‘military’ gives the average voter a boner, how is he even managing to ride this out?

There's a lot of that military fetishism at Ukip and Britain First and pro-Brexit rallies; anyone identified as having been a soldier gets loads of 'thank you for your service'. I always want to ask them why, if they feel so strongly about the armed services, so few of them ever joined up. But, you know...

I strongly suspect it's because they hate German people.

But don't like the idea of being shot at.

I spent most of today thinking about how little we learned from past mistakes, thinking about the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Yemen, The Amazon etc

Thinking about all these awful cunts hijacking the poppy as a vessel for their hateful agenda.

All those lives lost, all those lives being lost... and we’ve got Trump and Maybot at the wheel.

I try not too think too much. Lessons are slow to be learned. I’m in Norn Iron and have grown up with terrorism.
I’d love someone from Mars to come here and explain the current situation. No government as such. Murders and bombs still prevalent. Terrorists are now politicians.
I can’t explain this madness to my child and I live here.

I grew up in a country with national service and there was none of that romanticism. Everyone's dad had a military rank and could shoot a gun etc, these things were normal everyday stuff basically.
For that reason alone I reckon having a professional army is iffy. A drafted army is supposedly less effective as a deterrent, according to those who know this stuff, but IMO it's less corrosive on civil society at large.
That being said I dodged the draft when it was my time ....

I'm almost certain I would have been shot for cowardice in WW1 so I'd be the last person to have an issue with draft dodging.