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riversedge

(70,200 posts)
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 06:42 PM Jul 2017

Trump 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&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Glenn Thrush and Julie Hirschfeld Davis


............And Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, and other Jewish leaders criticized Mr. Trump’s 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 Poland’s liberal capital than in the conservative countryside —
the authorities chose a smaller, though still symbolically rich, site.

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Trump slighted the Poles by not visiting the getto uprising Monument & smaller venue chosen to him (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2017 OP
Slighted the POLES by not honoring the Jews who fought and died in the Warsaw Ghetto? elleng Jul 2017 #1
Yeah, I wondered about that leftstreet Jul 2017 #2
Thanks for the info, and recognition elleng Jul 2017 #3

elleng

(130,876 posts)
1. Slighted the POLES by not honoring the Jews who fought and died in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:30 PM
Jul 2017

What am I missing here?

leftstreet

(36,106 posts)
2. Yeah, I wondered about that
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:27 PM
Jul 2017

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.”

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