Trump Dissed Marines Killed in WWI Carnage Caused By His Kind of 'Nationalism'

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PARIS — History doesn’t mean much to Donald Trump. In the reality show and wrestling mania world where he first built his base, it’s an insult, as in “You’re history.” Dead. Gone. Forgotten.

So it should not be at all surprising that the history of World War I, commemorated this weekend in France 100 years after its end, would hold little attraction for the American president. And that might explain why he scowled, perhaps out of incomprehension, when French President Emmanuel Macron – citing the history of WWI – warned the world today that, “Patriotism is the opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.” One is about loving your own country, the other is about hating other people and their countries.

Trump, of course, has declared himself a proud nationalist, and has a long list of those he wants Americans to hate and fear. As for love of country, and indeed of those who loved it enough to die for it, he’s not so interested.

On Saturday, using a little rain (very little) as an excuse, Trump blew off a long-planned visit to the graves of more than 1,000 U.S. Marines killed in the ferocious fight for Belleau Wood in the bloody spring of 1918. No other heads of state failed to make their appointed rounds at battlefield cemeteries. But ironically it seems that Marine One, the presidential helicopter, was deterred by drizzle.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dissed-marines-killed-in-wwi-carnage-caused-by-his-kind-of-nationalism?ref=home

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1. No other heads of state failed to make their appointed rounds at battlefield cemeteries.

.............. No other heads of state failed to make their appointed rounds at battlefield cemeteries.