According to the article, Trump canceled a planned 2018 visit to Europe to honor U.S. service members who died in Europe because of concerns that daytime rain would tarnish his appearance. Visit seems necessary.
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s full of losers, “Trump said.
Trump said weather conditions prevented him from flying by helicopter and a motorcade was also considered disruptive to local operations.
Trump denounced the article’s claims, calling the president a scapegoat for military service, saying “they made it up.”
“If they really existed, if people really existed, they would say, they have low lives and they are liars,” Trump said of the anonymous sources cited in the article. “And I’ll be willing to swear on whatever it is. Never said that about our autumn heroes. There’s no one who respects them more.”
Atlantic said it stands by its report.
Trump’s former and current officials were quick to come to the president’s rescue with memories of their own events.
Sarah Sanders a. “The Atlantic story on RealDonaldTrump is a total BS To tweet. The former White House press secretary said she was “part of the public” about Trump’s canceled visit to Snow-Marne and that Trump’s comments on the war death “never happened.”
Hogan Gidley, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, also called the allegations “disgusting, vicious, derogatory lies.”
“I was there in Paris and the president never said those things,” Gidley said Tweet statement. “In fact, he would never think such nonsense because I know President Trump gives full love, respect and dignity to the brave men and women of the United States military.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized the president in a statement.
“If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, they are another mark of how deeply we disagree with President Trump and I about the role of the president of the United States,” Biden said. “I have said for a long time that, as a nation, we have many responsibilities, but we also have a duty to prepare and equip those who are sent in harm’s way, and to take care of them and their families.”
In the past, Trump has publicly criticized military heroes, including the late Sen. Also included is John McCain, who was camped in a North Vietnamese prison after his navy plane was shot down during a bombing mission in the Vietnam War.
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said in July 2015. He was a war hero because he was captured. I prefer people who were not caught. “
After Maine Kaken’s death in Aug. 2018, an Atlantic report said Trump, who was not invited to the Arizona senator’s memorial service, was furious when the flag was lowered to half-staff and told senior staff members, “We Not endorsing the loser. Funeral
Trump declined to comment in A. To tweet Late Thursday evening, McCain was honored to be “well deserved.”
“I’ve never been a big fan of John McCain … but to bring down the American flag of our nation, and that first-class funeral given by our country, I had to be recognized as president, and I did it without hesitation or complaint,” Trump said. Said.
