Biden Warns of Isolationism at War Cemetery Skipped by Trump

  • President lays wreath at World War I site during France trip
  • Says honoring the war dead is measure of ‘democratic values’
Biden participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, Northern France, on June 9.Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden warned against the rise of isolationism in the US while visiting an American military cemetery in France that his predecessor, Donald Trump, famously skipped six years ago.

Biden said the World War I-era Aisne-Marne American Cemetery was the final resting place for soldiers who fought in the deadliest US Marine Corps battle until then, Biden said, and he could not fathom “the idea that I’d come to Normandy and not make the short trip here to pay tribute.”