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Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’
By James LaPorta, The Associated Press
Trump branded wounded or killed American soldiers ' ...
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3 Oct 2023 — Trump branded wounded or killed American soldiers 'suckers' and 'losers', Gen John Kelly confirms. General John Kelly confirmed details of a ...
Did Trump call US war dead “losers” and “suckers”?
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4 Sept 2020 — He also felt the cemetery was, in his estimation, “filled with losers,” and that the nearly 2,000 Marines buried there were “suckers” for ...
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, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." 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 "suckers" for getting killed.
Shortly after the publication of The Atlantic report, one unnamed senior official with the U.S. Department of Defense and one senior U.S. Marine Corps officer confirmed the 2018 cemetery remarks from the above report in interviews with The Associated Press (AP). According to the AP, the official had firsthand knowledge of Trump's remarks, and the officer had been told about them.
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