The Rav of my shul looked at this issue from a different perspective. Does a ger/giyores still have a mitzvah of kibbud av vaeim? Do we know what happened in the private conversations between the President and his daughter and SIL? No, we don’t. So before we say why did they put themselves into a possible situation where they may need to be driven on shabbos, we would need to know answers to many other questions. Hopefully all those questions and answers were told over to whomever they spoke to.
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