"It's a totally fake story, and a disgrace that they're allowed to do it," said the president about a report that quoted him as calling war victims "losers" and "suckers."
Note to the president: You don't get to decide what is published and what is not. But the more important issue is this: Who is to "allow" publication of a story, especially one that is critical of a president? Is the current president claiming authority to decide which news stories can be published, allowing only those that support his government?
Perhaps it's time he read the First Amendment to the Constitution.
The current issue of the Atlantic magazine described in detail the president's attitude toward military personnel in general and particularly those killed or captured during wartime, citing numerous examples of his comments about war victims.
During the presidential election campaign, he referred to Sen. John McCain, a former Navy pilot who was shot down and held prisoner in North Vietnam for nearly ten years, as only being a war hero "because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
And the report described several example of his reluctance to visit cemeteries, including one in France that honored U.S. Marine casualties of battles in the First World War.
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