At New York
"Morons and losers."
The shock wave extended across the Atlantic after the revelation by
The Atlantic
magazine
last week of remarks made by Donald Trump against veterans, fallen soldiers and prisoners of war.
In an article published on September 3 and signed by Jeffrey Goldberg, we learned that the American president, during a visit to France in November 2018, had refused to go to the Aisne-Marne cemetery by car to honor the 1,811 marines killed a hundred years earlier in the Bois de Belleau, near Château-Thierry, on the grounds that all these dead were
"morons"
and that the cemetery was filled with
"losers"
.
Goldberg also reported contempt for the career of arms in the Trump family, fueled by the patriarch, Fred Sr, the insults against the late Senator John McCain, ex-prisoner of Vietnam, and even against former President George HW Bush (the father of George W. Bush), descended in flames over the Pacific
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