Trump The war tormented reports of so-called ‘losers’.

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a backlash over reports that he mocked American soldiers killed in action as “losers” and “suckers.”

The alleged comment was previously reported in Atlantic Magazine, And some details were corroborated by the Associated Press and Fox News.

But the president and his allies denied that he had made the remarks.

Among those who reportedly attacked the president were PV groups.

Progressive group voteweights Posted a video of families whose children were killed in the action. One says, “You don’t know what to sacrifice.”

Veterans of the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan Tweeted: “Who is really surprised by this?”

Analysts say the comments could prove detrimental to the president with the need for the support of military voters as they bid for re-election.

What has Trump said?

According to the Atlantic, Mr. Trump will travel to the U.S. outside Paris in 2018. The visit to the cemetery was canceled because he said it was “full of losers”.

Four sources told the magazine that they rejected the idea of ​​visiting because the rain would obscure her hair, and she did not consider it important to honor America’s war deaths.

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During the same trip, the president described the 1,800 U.S. soldiers who died at Bellevue Wood as “suckers.” This war helped stop German advance on Paris during World War I and the U.S. He was worshiped by the Marine Corps.

In 2018 The White House said the visit was canceled because bad weather had taken the president’s helicopter. The account is backed up in a recent book by John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Trump, who has been a vocal critic of Mr. Trump.

The Atlantic report was based on anonymous sources but The Associated Press said it has independently confirmed many of the comments. A Fox News reporter said he supported some of the comments.

Has there been a reaction?

On top of veterans ’comments, President Trump’s challenge in the November presidential election, if Biden told his opponent, is unfair to lead his rival.

“If the article is true – and it states, as he said, based on other things – it’s really reprehensible. It’s defamatory.”

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Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs while on duty in Iraq, said President Trump “prefers to use the U.S. military for his own ego.”

Khizr Khan, the father of an American soldier killed in Iraq Who criticized Mr. Trump during the 2016 Democratic Summit, Joined Ms Duckworth on a call.

He said: “When Donald Trump calls anyone who puts his life in the service of others a loser, we understand the spirit of Trump.”

How is the White House fighting the story?

President Trump has strongly opposed the reports, calling them “fake news.”

“I will make negative statements to my army and to the heroes in the payroll when no one has done anything with my military budget, with the military budget and with the increase in salaries to our army,” he said. “It’s a shameful situation to be horrified by a magazine.”

Speaking to reporters on Friday, he suggested that the source of the story was his former White House chief of staff, John Kelly. Mr Trump said the former US Marine general was “unable to control the pressure of this job”.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Friday morning that he was with the president for the good part of the trip to France and had never heard him use the words described in the article.

Secretary of Defense Mark Asper was quoted by Politico as saying that Mr. Trump has “the highest respect and admiration for our country’s military members, veterans and families,” although the Pentagon chief did not explicitly deny the story.

Other former White House chiefs of staff, Mick Mulawane and former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, were among those in Mr Trump’s orbit who dismissed the story.

Where are Trump and the US military?

The U.S. president often claims strong support in the military, and last year the Pew Research Center found that veterans generally supported him as commander-in-chief. 57% in favor. Three-fifths of the veterans, known as Republicans, were found in the research.

But there have been previous gaps and controversies.

He lashed out at the late Senator John McCain, a Vietnamese prisoner of war, saying he was not a “war hero”: “I like people who were not captured.”

President Trump has never served in uniform. During the Vietnam War he received five delays from the military draft – four for educational reasons and one for bone spurs, one for calcium build-up in the heel.