Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Thursday forcefully denied a report in The Atlantic magazine that he had disparaged US service members killed in battle and chose to skip a ceremony honoring veterans. Speaking to reporters after returning from a rally in Pennsylvania, the President said the report was "a disgraceful situation." "To think that I would make statements negative to our military when nobody has done what I've done, with the budgets and the military budget. It is a disgraceful situation, by a magazine that is a terrible magazine, I don't read it," he said. The Atlantic specifically reported that Trump didn't want to attend a ceremony at the Belleau Wood Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 because he was concerned that the rain would dishevel his hair.

Source: CNN September 04, 2020 04:18 UTC