A couple days ago, the press and its echo chamberists, such as President Obama's former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, made a big deal about President Trump cancelling his visit to a military cemetery in France to honor the fallen of World War I, due to rain.

Here's Obama's favorite bagman expressing his outrage:

Trump is blowing off honoring American servicemen who died for us and Macron’s Paris Peace Forum. Wonder if he will still find time for Putin.

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 10, 2018

I helped plan all of President Obama’s trips for 8 years. There is always a rain option. Always. https://t.co/exZNlONQOp

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 10, 2018

Guess which President didn’t let a little weather stop him from honoring the troops https://t.co/k7uXnZaSB7 pic.twitter.com/cf6hNggpyJ

— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) November 10, 2018

This is exactly right. There was always a bad weather call option. You were a part of some of those @DavidNakamura! https://t.co/yNdKAQgARM

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 10, 2018

But remember, it’s the NFL players who are disrespectful to the military https://t.co/O9CqQSiU2M

— Donté Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) November 10, 2018

In addition to our veterans, it’s a remarkable insult to our allies who lost so many millions of people for Trump to fly all the way to Europe to sit in a hotel room.

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 10, 2018

Note the smarminess. The smugness. The sophomoric claims to knowing how the job is really done, compared to Team Trump.  Note the willingness to compare Trump unfavorably to others. Oh, and the tweets go on and on here, this is just a short curation, they can all be read here. It went together with a collective tone of condemnation from the press about Trump cancelling the cemetery visit due to rain, as if he did that because he didn't want to honor the troops.

Now we get this:

In a story Nov. 10 about President Donald Trump canceling a planned visit to a cemetery for Americans killed in World War I, The Associated Press reported that the Secret Service determines when it's safe to fly Marine One, the president's helicopter. The story should have made clear that the Marine Corps and White House Military Office make the determination to ground the president's helicopter due to bad weather. The military office then presents the recommendation to the White House in collaboration with the Secret Service.

So it turns out Trump never made the decision at all about whether he could travel or not due to the rain, the military and the Secret Service decided what was safe and feasible. And Rhodes either didn't know that, which makes him an ignorant boob, or else did know that but wanted to score some political points. Now the correction exposes him and his icky little scolding shaming act for the phony show it was.

Stand up and take a bow, Ben. You've beclowned yourself. Again.