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Trump is also blowing off Macron's Peace Forum tomorrow.
The biggest event will be the one at the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday which will be attended by up to 70 world leaders including US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
On Saturday afternoon Macron will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Rethondes in the Compiegne Forest to the north of Paris where the Armistice was signed.
Sunday's ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Champs-Elysees avenue will take place at 11 am -- marking the time when the guns finally fell silent after four years of bloody trench warfare in France and Belgium. Macron will deliver a speech in front of world leaders.
Many of the invitees, including Putin, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Germany's Angela Merkel, are then expected to attend the opening of the inaugural Paris Peace Forum at La Villette in the 19th arrondissement, which French President Emmanuel Macron will host. Although Trump won't be there.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181109/how-france-will-commemorate-100-years-since-end-of-wwi-on-sunday
On Saturday afternoon Macron will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Rethondes in the Compiegne Forest to the north of Paris where the Armistice was signed.
Sunday's ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Champs-Elysees avenue will take place at 11 am -- marking the time when the guns finally fell silent after four years of bloody trench warfare in France and Belgium. Macron will deliver a speech in front of world leaders.
Many of the invitees, including Putin, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Germany's Angela Merkel, are then expected to attend the opening of the inaugural Paris Peace Forum at La Villette in the 19th arrondissement, which French President Emmanuel Macron will host. Although Trump won't be there.
Ending uncertainty about whether the US leader would participate, chief organiser Justin Vaisse confirmed to AFP on Thursday that Trump would not attend.
Earlier this week, Vaisse had played down the importance of his presence (at the Peace Forum) -- while explaining why Trump might not have found the agenda to his liking.
"The aim of the forum is to show that there are lots of forces in the international system -- states, NGOs, Foundations, intellectuals, companies -- who believe we need a world of rules, an open world and a multilateral world," he said.
"This world needs to meet up and defend itself," he said. "It doesn't matter if those who don't believe in multilateralism aren't there."
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181108/trump-to-snub-macrons-peace-forum-on-armistice-weekendEarlier this week, Vaisse had played down the importance of his presence (at the Peace Forum) -- while explaining why Trump might not have found the agenda to his liking.
"The aim of the forum is to show that there are lots of forces in the international system -- states, NGOs, Foundations, intellectuals, companies -- who believe we need a world of rules, an open world and a multilateral world," he said.
"This world needs to meet up and defend itself," he said. "It doesn't matter if those who don't believe in multilateralism aren't there."
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Can't go golfing so he needs to go abroad and do nothing? 
Only the finest for the Rump! 
He's missing almost everything.
