USA. Trump will not take part in the party of the bodies of soldiers who died in Lithuania

Donald Trump, president of the United States, will not take part in the ceremony of accepting the bodies of American soldiers who died in Lithuania. Trump went to his golf course in Florida on Friday and is to be present at the tournament sponsored by Saudi Arabia in his estate next to Miami. The information was provided by Fox News.

“President Trump will remain in Florida and will not go to Dover Afb to a dignified transfer of the bodies of four American soldiers who died during exercise in Lithuania,” said the correspondent of Fox News in the Pentagon Jen Griffin.

Presidents at the ceremony of receiving the bodies of soldiers

The head of Pentagon Pete HegeSeth went to the Air Force base in Dover in Delaware. On Friday morning, Trump appeared on his golf course in West Palm Beach in Florida, and later is expected at the LIV golf tournament in his other property, in Dalal near Miami. LIV is a golf league sponsored by the State Saudi Arabia Fund. However, the official calendar of the president is only one event – a candlelit dinner with sponsors of his election campaign.

US presidents often, although they did not always take part in the ceremonies at the Dover database. They were causes of political controversy. Republicans criticized President Joe Biden for looking at the watch during the ceremony of accepting the bodies of soldiers killed during the assassination at the airport in Kabul. During his first term of meeting with Trump, the father of the commando, who died during surgery in Yemen, refused.

The death of soldiers in Lithuania

On Thursday, the bodies of four soldiers who died during the exercises in Podbrodzie were solemnly said goodbye in Vilnius. Thousands of inhabitants of the Lithuanian capital participated in the ceremony, including the president of the country Gitanas Nauseda.

25-year-old Edvin Ben Franco, 25-year-old Jose Duez, 21-year-old Dante Gogo Taitano and 28-year-old Troy Smith Knutson-Collins were killed on March 25, when the M88 Hercules technical security wagon went to complete the task. After almost a week's search and rescue operation, their armored vehicle was pulled out of the swamp. The bodies of three soldiers were found in Hercules, extracted on March 31, the body of the fourth soldier was found in the swamp on April 1.