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Never forget: Trump called WWII veterans who died for freedom "losers" and "suckers".
Donald Trump canceled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were "losers" and "suckers" and he did not want the rain to mess up his hair, according to an explosive new report.
At the time, Trump explained the cancellation by saying his helicopter could not fly in the rain and the Secret Service would not drive him to Aisne-Marne American cemetery, where 1,800 US marines who lost their lives in the first world war battle at Belleau Wood are buried.
Trump denounced over reported war dead comments: 'He doesn't understand bravery' – as it happened
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” the report quotes Trump as saying. Trump also called the war dead “suckers” for getting killed, the report says.
Trump also asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” and did not understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies, the Atlantic report says.
Trump denied the report on Twitter Thursday evening. “I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES,” he wrote. “This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!”
On Friday, Trump attacked the Atlantic magazine, and accused it of “mak[ing] up a fake story in order to gain some relevance.”
But the report was supplemented on Friday morning by the Washington Post, which quoted “a former senior administration official” as saying that Trump “frequently made disparaging comments about veterans and soldiers missing in action, referring to them at times as ‘losers.’”
The Post quoted “a person familiar with the discussion” as saying that Trump told senior advisers he did not understand why the US government valued finding soldiers missing in action “because they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got.”
Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, issued a statement on the allegations: “If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role of the president of the United States.”
Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs as a helicopter pilot in Iraq, tweeted that “If [Trump] can’t bear to witness those who have sacrificed for our nation, perhaps he should avert his cowardly eyes.”
“I’m not shocked but I am appalled,” Duckworth separately told reporters. “Of course he thinks about war selfishly. He thinks about it as a transactional cost.”
“I think the American people certainly believe these stories,” Duckworth added. “This is something the president has been doing all along. He has consistently from the time he was running for office denigrated veterans.”
Donald Trump canceled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were "losers" and "suckers" and he did not want the rain to mess up his hair, according to an explosive new report.
At the time, Trump explained the cancellation by saying his helicopter could not fly in the rain and the Secret Service would not drive him to Aisne-Marne American cemetery, where 1,800 US marines who lost their lives in the first world war battle at Belleau Wood are buried.
Trump denounced over reported war dead comments: 'He doesn't understand bravery' – as it happened
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” the report quotes Trump as saying. Trump also called the war dead “suckers” for getting killed, the report says.
Trump also asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” and did not understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies, the Atlantic report says.
Trump denied the report on Twitter Thursday evening. “I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES,” he wrote. “This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!”
On Friday, Trump attacked the Atlantic magazine, and accused it of “mak[ing] up a fake story in order to gain some relevance.”
But the report was supplemented on Friday morning by the Washington Post, which quoted “a former senior administration official” as saying that Trump “frequently made disparaging comments about veterans and soldiers missing in action, referring to them at times as ‘losers.’”
The Post quoted “a person familiar with the discussion” as saying that Trump told senior advisers he did not understand why the US government valued finding soldiers missing in action “because they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got.”
Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, issued a statement on the allegations: “If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role of the president of the United States.”
Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs as a helicopter pilot in Iraq, tweeted that “If [Trump] can’t bear to witness those who have sacrificed for our nation, perhaps he should avert his cowardly eyes.”
“I’m not shocked but I am appalled,” Duckworth separately told reporters. “Of course he thinks about war selfishly. He thinks about it as a transactional cost.”
“I think the American people certainly believe these stories,” Duckworth added. “This is something the president has been doing all along. He has consistently from the time he was running for office denigrated veterans.”
