Seven Years Later, Marine Widow Recalls Trump Hugging Her Son At Husband's Arlington Grave

The mother of six-year-old Christian Jacobs, the boy who shared a hug with President Donald J. Trump, told RedState she and her son still remember with fondness that 2017 Memorial Day at her fallen Marine husband’s Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, gravesite. “It was very sincere,” said Brittany Jacobs, whose husband Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs was killed during an Oct. 24, 2011, premobilization training event at the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, also known as 29 Palms, because it is in Twentynine Palms, California. Jacobs said Trump was taken in by her son. “Trump came to him with a sincerity, caring, genuine, heartfelt,” she said. “He hugged him the next time we saw him.” The professional photographer said she had no idea they would encounter Trump that Memorial Day.

“Every year when we go there and you're at that area, you don't know who's going to come through there,” she said. “They had cleared out a path, and when he came through, Christian went to walk up--obviously I stayed back--and he walked up to the president and asked him: ‘Do you want to meet my Daddy?’” she said. “President Trump followed him, and Christian went straight to the headstone,” Jacobs said. As Trump looked along, her son, wearing Marine dress blues with the sergeant stripes with a white combination cover and white dress gloves, showed the president photos his mother had brought to the gravesite, she said. “He was showing him pictures from our wedding, and he told him: ‘This is the one where they threw rice on my Mom and Daddy,’” she said. “I would always bring pictures and stuff, and we would sit there and just talk about memories and stuff like that. I would do that with him,” Jacobs said. “He kind of just shared some of the memories with the president.”

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