President Joe Biden insisted former President Donald Trump is a “fool” and a “loser,” as Trump insisted the report he called dead World War I veterans was “made up.”
‘I was recently in France for a day and I spoke highly of the heroes who died. I went to the World War II cemetery, the World War I cemetery, and he refused to go,’ Biden said during Thursday night’s debate in Atlanta.
In 2020 The Atlantic reported that Trump refused a visit to the American cemetery in Aisne-Marne, near Paris, in 2018, because he “was afraid his hair would get disheveled in the rain.”
The outlet reported that Trump told staff about the visit: “Why would I go to that cemetery? It’s full of losers.”
President Joe Biden insisted former President Donald Trump is a “fool” and a “loser,” while Trump insisted the report that he called dead World War I veterans “just” was “made up.”
I was recently in France for a day and spoke well of the heroes who died. “I went to the World War II cemetery, the World War I cemetery, he refused to go,” Biden said during Thursday night’s debate in Atlanta.
“My son was not a loser, he was not a fool,” Biden said, referring to his late son Beau, who was deployed to the Army in Iraq. Biden has long blamed his son’s fatal brain cancer on burns he was exposed to while in the service.
‘You’re the fool! You’re the loser!’ Biden continued.
“First of all, that was made up,” Trump said of the quote. “They made it up. It was in the third-grade magazine that he’s failing. Like a lot of these magazines, he made it up,” he added, referring to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, confirmed the comments, adding that Trump had said he did not want to include military amputees at a White House event in 2018, when he reportedly said their presence “doesn’t look good to me.”
Four years later, the story apparently weighs on Trump’s mind.
“Think about it from a practical standpoint,” Trump told a crowd in Las Vegas earlier this month.
“I’m there with generals and soldiers in a cemetery, and I look at them and say, ‘These people are fools and losers.'” Now, think about it; Unless you are a psychopath, a crazy person or a very stupid person, who would say that?
In 2015, Trump made surprising comments about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump insisted. ‘He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.