The holidays are a time to show respect for those who serve us. President Trump just did this in a major way — and it put Barack Obama to shame.
As most of you likely know, the president is spending his Christmas break down at his Mar-a-Lago resort down in Florida. That takes a considerable amount of security presence, and not just by the Secret Service.
What you probably didn’t know, however, is how the Trumps treated those who were assigned to the security detail. It didn’t get a lot of play in the press — although CNN’s Noah Gray tweeted about it.
Take a look:
President Trump is spending Christmas day w/ family at Mar A Lago, while providing feast for military & law enforcement, a source tells me
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) December 25, 2017
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Hundreds of meals being served throughout the day for members of Secret Service, WH Military Office, & Palm Beach Sheriff working the trip https://t.co/4l9Gy3JU6W
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) December 25, 2017
The meals are being paid for privately by the Trump’s the source adds https://t.co/KcOS41ASN4
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) December 25, 2017
Meals offered from 1p-7p so all shifts working the trip can be served. Includes “a full Christmas spread” featuring Turkey & dessert buffet https://t.co/WjA9rTYIgj
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) December 25, 2017
Yes, police, Secret Service and the people of the White House Military Office were all treated to “a full Christmas spread” at the request of the president — and all out of the president’s pocket, without a dime apparently spent for the dinner by taxpayers.
They even made sure that every shift got a meal by offering meals from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
That’s a pretty big move to begin with, but it looks positively great when you consider the previous White House’s acrimonious relationship with the nation’s police.
It was so bad that in summer of 2016, right after five Dallas police officers were shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter march, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations said that then-President Obama had engendered a “war on cops.”
William Johnson said that the “continued appeasements at the federal level (by the Obama administration) with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible.”
As 2017 comes to an end, it’s always a good time to reflect on what made this year different than last year — especially in politics.
At least at the White House, one thing that’s very different is a palpable respect for law enforcement. That newfound level of respect has made itself known in a number of ways, but the spread paid for out of the president’s pocket is a pretty effective synecdoche for the whole thing.
What the Trumps did on Christmas wasn’t the kind of thing that the Obamas were known to do. The last president and his family kept their distance from law enforcement and those assigned to protect them. Trump, apparently, is changing that in a huge way.
H/T The Daily Caller
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