Obama orders U.S. Marine to break military rules and hold an umbrella

President Obama humiliated the marine who he asked to hold his umbrella by making him ‘look like a butler’, a respected military general claimed today.

Thomas McInerney, a former United States Air Force Lieutenant General, said that the President showed a ‘lack of respect’ by making the soldier shelter him from a shower.

He also said that the President has plenty of aides so did not understand why one of them could not have held the umbrella.

The President caused a stir when he summoned over two marines to keep him dry at a press conference in the Rose Garden.

The marines held an umbrella over the President and the Turkish Prime Minister individually as Obama made jokes about the weather.

However, for some the move was not a laughing matter particularly as it is a breach of protocol for marines to hold umbrellas while in uniform.

Lt Gen McInerney told MailOnline that he found it particularly insulting how the President at one point his his hand under the marine’s arm ‘like he wasn’t doing a good job or something’.

He said: ‘The President has stood in the rain before without an umbrella and a marine would generally stand there without holding an umbrella.'

‘He isn’t some kind of butler or something.

‘It makes the other guy (the other marine) look like a butler too.'

‘I think it’s a lack of respect for the marine, that’s what I think.'

‘I don’t understand why one of his aides could not have held the umbrella. The marine is a warrior but the aides are not.’

Lt Gen McInerney, 76, served in Vietnam and fought with NATO and was commander of the 11th Air Force in Alaska before retiring.

He said: ‘If I was his (the marine’s) commander...I’d say good job, you did what he wanted you to do but you can’t, really he has to keep his comments to himself because if you say anything you’re going to get in trouble.'

‘Any time a marine has said something...one general who spoke out, he got fired, he got canned from his job.’

Lt Gen McInerney also lashed out at the President for not doing enough to support soldiers when they return home from combat.'

He said: ‘The President talks a good line but he doesn’t follow a good line. These guys are coming home and they’re not getting what they are supposed to get.'

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Elitist pricks. That white house is massive. They have every amenity you can think of. It takes a real asshole to do what they did, instead of just moving inside or to 1 of 100s of other venues readily available.

Elitist pricks, expecting everyone to stand in the rain, except the 2 "chosen ones".

Also, Men hold umbrella for ladies because its gentlemanly. I don't know many men that would ask or expect another man to hold an umbrella for them.

I second that optix... what pompous assholes. What next... ass wipin'? Remember, groom of the stool?

WTF are Americans waiting for?

How much more are the Americans going to stand being insulted and humiliated like this? And this is the treatment meted out to one of those people that put their lives at stake every time they're ordered to go fight one of their whimsical wars!!

That Marine would probably be a better President.

Just look at their faces

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