President Trump signaled that, in retrospect, he regrets not visiting Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Veterans Day.
“I should have done that,” Trump told “Fox News Sunday” in an interview set to air this coming weekend. “I was extremely busy on calls for the country, we did a lot of calling, as you know.”
The president came under scrutiny for spending Monday, when the country observed Veterans Day, at the White House. He had no public events on his schedule.
Trump returned to Washington on Sunday after spending the weekend with world leaders in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. During the trip, the president received a host of criticism after the White House canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery because of inclement weather.
He did, however, deliver a speech at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial in France on Sunday and visited a Marine Corps barracks in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
“In retrospect I should have, and I did last year and I will virtually every year,” Trump said, of visiting Arlington cemetery. “But 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 and I was extremely busy because of affairs of state, doing other things.”
