President Donald Trump is set to participate in a solemn dignified transfer ceremony on Saturday, honoring those who lost their lives in the ongoing conflict with Iran.

The ceremony will be held at Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of six U.S. service members, who recently perished in Kuwait, will be returned to their grieving families.

The fallen soldiers, all Army reservists from the 103rd Sustainment Command headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, were killed last Sunday. Their names are Nicole Amor, 39; Cody Khork, 35; Declan Coady, 20; Robert Marzan, 54; Jeffrey O’Brien, 45; and Noah Tietjens, 42.

President Trump expressed his willingness to attend the ceremony in a phone interview with the Daily Mail on Sunday. This plan was confirmed on Wednesday by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a press briefing.

This visit will be the President’s second to Dover Air Force Base for such a ceremony during his current term, underscoring his commitment to honoring the nation’s military personnel.

It will mark the President’s second trip to Dover for this type of military ceremony during his second term. 

Trump also attended one in December to pay tribute to two US Army soldiers and their US civilian interpreter who were killed by an ISIS-affiliated gunman in Syria. 

The President attended just four dignified transfer ceremonies during his first term, which sometimes put him in political hot water.

President Donald Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony in December after Americans were killed in Syria by an ISIS-aligned gunman. It marked his first trip to Dover Air Force Base for the solemn moment during his second term 

Army Reserve Major Jeffrey O’Brien (left), 45 and Chief Warrant Officer Robert M Marzan (right), 54 

 Captain Cody A Khork (left), 35, and Sergeant 1st Class Nicole M Amor, 39 

Sergeant 1st Class Noah L Tietjens (left), 42, and Specialist Declan J Coady, 20

Just weeks into his first term, Trump went to his first dignified transfer ceremony on February 1, 2017, where Bill Owens, the father of the slain William ‘Ryan’ Owens, refused to shake the President’s hand. 

The elder Owens was enraged that Trump had approved a raid in Yemen just six days into his term. 

‘For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen – everything was missiles and drones – because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden, we had to make this grand display?’ Bill Owens told the Miami Herald.

Bill Owens and his wife sat in a room away from Trump when the President was conducting greetings. 

Trump did not return to Dover for another dignified transfer ceremony until nearly two years later – on January 19, 2019. 

‘He refused to go back for two years, he was so rattled,’ an aide told HuffPost for a September 2020 story, written as Trump was engaged in a tough reelection fight against Democratic nominee, Vice President Joe Biden.

Once Biden was in office, his own conduct at a dignified transfer ceremony also became a political problem. 

Amid the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, 13 US service members were killed in a terror attack outside the Kabul International Airport. 

Trump salutes the casket of a servicemember killed in Syria at Dover Air Force Base on January 19, 2019

The First Lady and President salute the casket of a servicemember at Dover Air Force Base on November 21, 2019 

Trump and then-vice president Mike Pence pay their respects at Dover Air Force Base on February 10, 2020 

During the August 2021 dignified transfer ceremony for the 13 Americans killed, the Democrat was seen looking at his watch on several occasions, sparking fury online among veterans and GOP commentators. 

Behind closed doors, family members of the dead were also insulted that Biden spoke so much about the death of his own son, Beau, instead of focusing on their loved ones. 

GOP Iowa Representative Zach Nunn first announced the news of Saturday’s ceremony. 

‘This Saturday, I will attend the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base to honor the brave Americans who were killed in action and stand with their families during this solemn moment,’ Nunn said Thursday. 

Trump is still expected to jet off to Florida first, with the White House daily guidance saying the President will fly Friday night to Miami, where he’s hosting the Shield of the Americas summit this weekend. 

The gathering of leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago is taking place at his Doral golf club. 

There, the President is expected to come face-to-face with his fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whom he named as the ‘Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas’ as a consolation prize amid the ouster. 

Trump announced that Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin would take Noem’s place in a Truth Social post on Thursday.

He will then presumably fly up to Delaware for Saturday’s solemn affair.