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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump motorcade takes longer 'scenic route'; avoid: #MarchForOurLives protestors in West Palm Beach
joe capozzi
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The scene along southern boulevard outside Dreher Park in West palm beach. Crowd standing waiting in case motorcade passes #MarchForOurLives
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Abby D. Phillip
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20h20 hours ago
With President Trump in Florida on his golf course and thousands marching across the country to protest gun laws, the White House released this statement addressing the "March for our Lives":
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Richard Hine @richardhine
9h9 hours ago
A few weeks ago, Trump bragged that he would stand up to the NRA. Today he ran from children instead. #MarchForOurLives #FailedPresident #CadetBoneSpurs https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2018/live-updates/politics/march-for-our-lives/trumps-motorcade-takes-longer-route-avoiding-florida-march/?utm_term=.8573b742bf3a
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Trump's motorcade takes detour away from gun control marchers in Florida
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-motorcade-takes-detour-away-from-gun-control-marchers-in-florida
by Katie Leach
| March 24, 2018 07:16 PM
President Trumps motorcade took a detour from its typical route in West Palm Beach, avoiding hundreds of gun control protesters lined up along his customary route.
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However, the motorcade took a detour 2 miles north of the usual route, according to the Palm Beach Daily News.
The White House has not said why the presidents motorcade took a different route and the Secret Service told the outlet that it doesnt comment on matters of security.
The report notes that Trump's motorcade has been diverted in the past when there were protester along the normal route.
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Trumps Motorcade Drove Out of Its Way to Avoid Seeing Children Protest Gun Violence
https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/trumps-motorcade-drove-out-its-way-avoid-seeing-children-protest-gun-violence
Trump is scheduled to stay at Mar-A-Lago and has no public events for the rest of the day.
By Martin Cizmar / Raw Story
March 24, 2018, 1:11 PM GMT
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Donald Trump is in Florida to play golf this weekend, which puts him in uncomfortable proximity to the #MarchForOurLives protest scheduled in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
The president went out of his way to avoid the protesting children today, the Palm Beach Post reports, with his motorcade taking a detour.
The 1.5 mile scenic route to Mar-a-Lago allowed Trump, his wife and son to avoid the children and an pro-impeachment billboard erected by Democratic fundraiser and activist Claude Taylor.....................................
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Trump motorcade takes longer 'scenic route'; avoid: #MarchForOurLives protestors in West Palm Beach (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2018
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. Dirty Donny* dodges every possible encounter with truth or responsibility
He is a Compleat Republican, lacking in courage, honor, and loyalty to American democracy.
* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)2. chickenshit he is
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)3. A Coward! n/t
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)4. I have a question
was Malaria in the limo with him, or did she take a separate limo?
riversedge
(70,204 posts)6. One of the sceengrabs in OP looks like they were both headed to one limo.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)8. Her taking a limo in DC
was nothing but play acting.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)5. Why did the chicken take the long way around?
Because hes a whiny temper tantrum-throwing crybaby!
logosoco
(3,208 posts)7. The Secret Service had to do some planning to make sure the person holding the
office of the POTUS was "safe". But in this case it was "protecting" him from others who are just standing up and saying THEY want to be safe, too.
We need a new word for this type of coward.