At a White House news conference, the president also reiterated his claim that reports he had made offensive comments about fallen U.S. service members and called World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France “losers” and “suckers” were a “hoax.”
The Atlantic first reported on the anonymously sourced allegations, which included claims Trump had made disparaging comments while visiting the grave of former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s son at Arlington National Cemetery.
He told reporters that “only an animal would say a thing like that.”
“I’m not saying the military’s in love with me,” Trump added, as he advocated for the removal of U.S. troops from “endless wars” and lambasted NATO allies that he says rip off the U.S. “The soldiers are.”
“The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy,” he added.
“Some people don’t like to come home, some people like to continue to spend money,” the president said. “One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, that’s what it was.”
The remarks prompted a wave of social media reaction and the president later took to Twitter himself, sharing tweets that compared him to former President Dwight Eisenhower…
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