Trump abandons tradition of observing 9/11 moment of silence

Trump can’t bring himself to do the right thing.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk along the September 11th Flight 93 memorial, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Credit: AP Photo, Evan Vucci

For sixteen years, American presidents marked the terror attacks of 9/11 by publicly observing a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., commemorating the time of the first strike on the World Trade Center.

On Tuesday, Trump ended that tradition.

Instead of marking that somber moment on the grounds of the White House, as he did last year, and as Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama did every year before him, Trump instead was out of view.

View the complete September 11, 2018, article by Eric Boehlert on the ShareBlue.com website here.