Whining Trump Fails To Observe 9/11 Minute Of Silence
Eric Boehlert
September 12, 2018 2:03 am
For sixteen years, American presidents marked the terror attacks of 9/11 by publicly observing a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., commemorating the time of the first strike on the World Trade Center.
On Tuesday, Trump ended that tradition.
Instead of marking that somber moment on the grounds of the White House, as he did last year, and as Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama did every year before him, Trump instead was out of view.
At 8:44 a.m. Trump tweeted out a picture of him and his White House staff on the lawn with everyone’s hands over their hearts, apparently honoring the victims on 9/11.
But a pool press report from Tuesday confirmed Trump arrived at 8:11 a.m. at Andrews Air Force Base to board Air Force One to travel to a 9/11 memorial service in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where 40 passengers and crew members died when hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field on Sept. 11, 2001.
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