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Trump’s absence at the solemn ceremonies on Friday is a carryover issue from his first term. In September 2020, a Huffpost review of Air Force records showed that the president only attended four of the 96 dignified transfers that took place during his first four years in office.
Additionally, a Trump aide told the outlet that the president had avoided traveling to Dover at all for nearly two years straight after he was snubbed by a military parent.
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Bill Owens, the father of slain Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens — who was killed in a controversial raid in Yemen just weeks after Trump first took office — said he didn’t want to meet with the president as his son’s body arrived at Dover.
“[Trump] refused to go back for two years, he was so rattled,” the aide recalled.
Former President Joe Biden also did not attend every dignified transfer during his time in the White House. However, in August 2021, when he and wife Jill went to Dover to meet the bodies of 13 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan — after privately meeting with their families — Trump took to Fox News to criticize his behavior and call him a "disgrace."
“When he kept looking at his watch yesterday at Dover with the parents and spouses of people that were killed, the Marines and the Navy sailor that was killed, and he’s looking at his watch, like, ‘Get me the hell out of here. I want to go home, get me out. I want to go home,' " Trump told Fox Business host Stuart Varney. “I mean how many times did he look at his watch?"
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