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Trump Losers Comment September 2020

The Atlantic's report that President Trump called dead American soldiers 'losers' in September 2020, based on anonymous sources, and the subsequent denial by the president.

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Jan 28, 2026
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did Trump call WWII soldiers suckers & losers

Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic story alleges that privately called American war dead “losers” and “suckers,” primarily in reference to a canceled 2018 visit to the near Paris and to Marines ...

Jan 24, 2026
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What evidence did The Atlantic present for its report that Trump called veterans 'suckers' and 'losers'?

’s 2020 report that called some American war dead “losers” and U.S. Marines “suckers” rested primarily on contemporaneous, on-background accounts from multiple unnamed senior administration and milita...

Jan 24, 2026
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did donald trump berate vietnam veterins by saying the were stupid because they did no know how to get out of it ?

There is no definitive, on-the-record quote showing explicitly saying to veterans “”; however, multiple reputable reports over several years have attributed deeply disparaging remarks about veterans a...

Jan 24, 2026

How did media outlets fact-check Trump's 2019 claims about fallen soldiers?

Major news organizations and fact‑checkers took ’s 2019 and later remarks about U.S. and allied service members and subjected them to forensic checks: they reconstructed timelines, consulted casualty ...

Jan 14, 2026

What did The Atlantic's original 2020 article actually cite and who were the sources?

The Atlantic’s controversial September 2020 piece reporting that President Trump called dead American soldiers “losers” was described in public records as based on “several anonymous sources,” and the...