President Donald Trump is facing explosive allegations he repeatedly disparaged members of the military and described America’s war dead as « losers » and « suckers » – …
President Donald Trump is facing explosive allegations he repeatedly disparaged members of the military and described America’s war dead as « losers » and « suckers » – accusations he has angrily denied. Here’s what we know: The Atlantic magazine described a 2018 meeting with senior officials in France in which he discussed why Trump was cancelling a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris to honor America’s war dead. The president publicly blamed the cancellation of the visit on safety concerns expressed by the Secret Service due to rain which made it impossible to fly a helicopter there. But The Atlantic, citing four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day, reported that Trump said in the meeting he didn’t want to go because he didn’t want his hair to get disheveled in the rain and he didn’t see why he should honor dead soldiers. “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” the magazine quoted Trump as saying. The report said he referred to the more than 1,800 marines who died at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
