{"id":62015,"date":"2018-11-16T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/16\/trump-expresses-regret-for-not-visiting-arlington-cemetery-on-veterans-day\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:50:55","slug":"trump-expresses-regret-for-not-visiting-arlington-cemetery-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2018\/11\/16\/trump-expresses-regret-for-not-visiting-arlington-cemetery-on-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expresses regret for not visiting Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 In an interview being aired Sunday, President Donald Trump expresses regret for not visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2018\/11\/12\/watch-arlington-national-cemetery-celebrate-veterans-day\/\" target=_blank>Arlington National Cemetery<\/a> over Veterans\u2019 Day weekend but said that he was prevented from doing so because he was \u201cextremely busy on calls for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments \u2014 part of wide-ranging discussion with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace \u2014 come after extensive criticism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/11\/16\/trump-visits-marines-at-washington-barracks-speaks-at-veterans-event\/\" target=_blank>Trump\u2019s handling of ceremonial duties<\/a> during the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Trump traveled to France to take part in events marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/11\/11\/op-ed-how-we-might-think-about-the-war-to-end-all-wars\/\" target=_blank>100th anniversary of World War I<\/a>, but courted controversy when he skipped a ceremony at Aisne Marne American Cemetery on Saturday because of inclement weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other world leaders and U.S. officials made it to the site despite the rain. White House officials said the weather grounded a planned helicopter ride to the site and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/11\/12\/white-house-cemetery-motorcade-would-have-disrupted-roads\/\" target=_blank>a presidential motorcade would have disrupted traffic<\/a> throughout Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2018\/11\/08\/for-todays-va-its-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VA-photo-marine.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">For today\u2019s VA, it\u2019s the best of times and the worst of times<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">In the last year, the Department of Veterans Affairs has seen big successes and even bigger controversies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon his return back to America, Trump opted not to attend similar commemoration events at Arlington National Cemetery. He did attend another memorial event in France, delivering a speech paying tribute to the troops who served in WWI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Wallace asked why he didn\u2019t travel to Arlington for some of the events, Trump said \u201cI should have done that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that he did attend those ceremonies in 2017. In fact, However, Trump was traveling overseas in Vietnam on Veterans Day 2017 and met with veterans there in lieu of the Arlington event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn retrospect, I should have done, and I did last year and I will virtually every year,\u201d the president said in interview excerpts released by the news station. \u201cBut we had come in very late at night and I had just left, literally, the American cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was extremely busy because of affairs of state, doing other things \u2026 But I would have, I would have done it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, at a White House event honoring veterans and military families, Trump said that veterans are \u201ca tremendously important group of people to me\u201d and touted a host of legislative accomplishments in veterans policy over the last two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also criticized President Barack Obama\u2019s veterans policies without offering any specifics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re very incredible people,\u201d he told the crowd of veterans. \u201cI know the job you\u2019re doing; I know how hard it is. I know what you\u2019ve gone through, especially before we came into office. What you went through is incredible. Horrible, in certain ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full Fox News interview is scheduled to air Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excerpt from Chris Wallace\u2019s interview with POTUS. 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