According to a media report, US President Donald Trump called US soldiers who fell in World War II „losers“. During a trip to France in 2018, Trump spontaneously refused a planned visit to the US military cemetery Aisne-Marne near Paris, according to the article published yesterday in The Atlantic magazine.
The US President said to his staff: “Why should I visit this cemetery? It’s full of losers. “
Trump is said to have worried about hairstyle
The article written by „Atlantic“ editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said that Trump rejected the planned visit primarily because he feared that his hairstyle could be „disheveled“ in the rain. The US delegation had officially declared at the time that Trump could not visit the cemetery because his helicopter was not ready to take off due to the weather.
In another conversation on the same trip, Trump described the more than 1,800 US soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne cemetery as “idiots”. There are four witnesses for the statements.
Trump: „Scum and Liars“
Trump has already denied the report. On the sidelines of a campaign event in Pennsylvania, he said: „Someone is making up this horrible story that I didn’t want to go (to the cemetery).“ The people who make these claims are „scum and liars,“ Trump said. He was ready to „swear that I never said anything like that about our fallen heroes“.
Critics, meanwhile, pointed to the denigration of the now deceased Republican Senator John McCain by Trump. During the 2016 election campaign, Trump had said of one of his biggest internal party critics, who was captured during the Vietnam War, that McCain was „not a hero“ and that „I like people who have not been caught.“
