Trump: ‘The Fallen Soldiers? Losers and losers who died “

Two years ago, in France for the commemorations of the First World War, Donald Trump skips visit to the US military cemetery Aisne-Marne: argues that weather conditions do not allow the helicopter to fly. Now The Atlantic writes, based on the testimonies of four participants in that mission whose names it does not mention, that the president refused to go saying noThere was no point visiting a place full of losers, defeated. He then spoke of the 1,300 Marines buried there from a mass of “losers who killed themselves”. Irrelevant to him is the fact that his sacrifice prevented the Germans from reaching Paris: he said, in fact, of without understanding why the United States sided with the allies.

The negation

The story, if true, would be a lot harmful to Trump also from an electoral perspective. The army is mostly conservative and has courted them. But the president also did things that the defense world did not like: involve the General Staff in electoral outings, try to use the military in the management of public order in the cities during racial protests and then break with some. of America’s most respected generals who called the government: James Mattis, John Kelly, HR McMaster. Trump then decides to deny and does so vehemently: «I never said anything like that, I swear on nothing. Only an animal can say such a thing. I have great respect for fallen heroes.