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Shellback Squid

(9,308 posts) Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:12 PM Friday

aNd nERO pLAYED gOLF

Did not attend the arrival of 4 dead soldiers in Dover
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-golf-dinner-over-dignified-transfer-of-troops/

Yet according to a Sept. 2020 article in The Huffington Post, Trump was so damaged after a Feb. 1, 2017, incident involving Bill Owens, the father of slain Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, that he has avoided many of them since.

Owens refused to meet or shake Trump’s hand during the dignified transfer of Bill’s son, telling the Miami Herald at the time, “I told them I don’t want to meet the President.”

At the time of the HuffPost article, a review of Air Force records showed 96 dignified transfers since the beginning of Trump’s first term. At that stage, he had been to just four.