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Donald Trump had described US soldiers killed during World War I as “losers” and “fools,” according to an article in The Atlantic magazine, a charge that the White House categorically denied.
During a visit to France in November 2018 to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, the Republican president canceled a tour he was scheduled to take at an American cemetery near Paris, later explaining how bad weather conditions made it impossible to visit.
But according to Atlantic, a respected monthly magazine in the United States, the New York mogul was not simply because he did not want to.
“Why do I have to go to this cemetery? It is full of losers,” he had told his team members, according to the magazine, which cites many sources but did not name them.
Trump had also described the 1,541 US soldiers lost in the Battle of Belo Forest as “fools” before asking “who were the good guys” in the war and wondering why the United States sided with the Allies.
The White House categorically denied the article.
“No one was brave enough to put his name under these accusations.” Because they are false, “said Judd Deere, spokesman for the US presidency.
Hogan Goodley, a former White House spokesman who accompanied Trump on his trip to France in 2018, also denied the allegations, accusing them of “utterly ridiculous” accusations and “deplorable and cowardly” anonymous sources.
During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump had publicly spoken out against the role of the Vietnam War hero attributed to the late former Senator John McCain, a former fighter pilot who had been held captive and tortured for five years. .
“He is a hero because he was captured.” I like those who were not taken prisoner, “said the then US presidential candidate.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
