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.
