US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as „losers“ and „suckers“ for getting killed in action, according …
US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as „losers“ and „suckers“ for getting killed in action, according to a report Thursday in the Atlantic magazine. The report, penned by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, said Trump had refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because „he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain,“ although the official explanation offered by aides was that the helicopter due to take him there could not fly due to weather. „In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‚Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,'“ the article said. „In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ’suckers‘ for getting killed,“ the Atlantic added, citing four unnamed people it said had firsthand knowledge of the discussions.
