{"id":10616,"date":"2020-09-04T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2020-09-05T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T10:54:18","slug":"post1-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=10616","title":{"rendered":"“Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are \u2018Losers\u2019 and \u2018Suckers\u2019”, The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Goldberg, September 3, 2020<\/p>\n

The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that \u201cthe helicopter couldn\u2019t fly\u201d and that the Secret Service wouldn\u2019t drive him there. Neither claim was true.<\/p>\n

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Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, \u201cWhy should I go to that cemetery? It\u2019s filled with losers.\u201d In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as \u201csuckers\u201d for getting killed.<\/p>\n

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