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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump slighted the Poles by not visiting the getto uprising Monument & smaller venue chosen to him
give his speech.
Earlier in the article-it says that Ivanka did visit the monument.
Donald Trump, in Poland, Urges West to Defend Our Civilization
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/world/europe/donald-trump-poland-speech.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Glenn Thrush and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
............And Michael Schudrich, Polands chief rabbi, and other Jewish leaders criticized Mr. Trumps decision not to visit the monument to the 1943 ghetto uprising...................
...........Every American president and vice president who has visited Warsaw since the fall of communism in 1989 has visited the monument. We deeply regret that President Donald Trump, though speaking in public barely a mile away from the monument, chose to break with that laudable tradition, alongside so many other ones, the statement read. We trust that this slight does not reflect the attitudes and feelings of the American people.............................
............After chastising CNN a go-to move on both sides of the Atlantic Mr. Trump went after NBC, his former employer. NBC is nearly as bad, despite the fact that I made them a lot of money on The Apprentice, he said.
Krasinski Square is considerably smaller than Zamkowy Square, outside the Royal Palace, where President Barack Obama spoke in 2014.
Worried that crowds would not show up on Thursday Mr. Trump is less popular in Polands liberal capital than in the conservative countryside the authorities chose a smaller, though still symbolically rich, site.
elleng
(130,876 posts)What am I missing here?
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)That's not the article subtitle.
In any case, Czarina Ivanka DID go to the memorial
"It was a privilege to pay my respects and remember, with gratitude, those who tenaciously fought against all odds, Ms. Trump said in a statement that did not mention Jews or the Holocaust. The monument, erected on the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, symbolizes the fight for freedom. I am profoundly grateful for those who fought and all those who continue to fight today.
elleng
(130,876 posts)I'm not the only one.