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When US President Donald Trump (74) canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in northern France two years ago, he blamed rain for his short-term decision. He said the helicopter couldn’t fly and the Secret Service couldn’t fly it there.
Neither of these statements is true. Rather, Trump decided not to visit him because he feared his hairstyle would ruffle in the rain. At least that’s what the American magazine “The Atlantic” writes. It was not at all important to him to venerate the American war dead who fell in 1918. He is said to have said, “Why should I go to the cemetery? It’s full of losers (‘losers’) “.
On the same trip, he is said to have called the more than 1,800 American soldiers who lost their lives at the hands of the Germans in Belleau Forest in 1918 as “fools” because they allowed themselves to be killed.
Mockery of Senator McCain
Trump is also said to have dragged out Republican Senator John McCain (1936-2018), who spent several years in captivity as a soldier in Vietnam, when Trump died in 2018. “We will not support the funeral of this loser,” he said and was enraged when he saw flags at half mast. Trump said, “Why the hell are we doing this? He was a fucking loser. “
Did Trump really say that? Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg (54), who wrote the article and has already received multiple awards for his work, relies on “first-hand” information.
Trump vehemently denies it
Such reports are extremely detrimental to Trump’s reelection because it depends on the support of military circles. Trump also immediately rejected the report, denying that he had labeled the fallen soldiers as losers and idiots.
Trump: “If there really are people who have said that, they are scum and liars.” There is no one who respects fallen heroes more than him.
The report from “The Atlantic” was confirmed to the AP news agency from Pentagon circles. Trump challenger Joe Biden (77) gratefully accepted the ball, saying: “The article, if true, shows once again how differently President Trump and I think about the role of the President of the United States.” (gf)
