In the United States, crisis of confidence between Donald Trump and the military
Comments reported by the magazine "The Atlantic" highlight the casualness of the president vis-à-vis soldiers killed in action.
Donald Trump does not take offense. Following publication by the head of the center-left magazine editor to The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, an article in which unnamed sources reported remarks expressing his casualness, even contempt, for fallen soldiers, the president of the United -Unis has embarked on a virulent counter-attack.
He successively Jeffrey Goldberg called a "crook" asked the head of the defense columnist of the conservative Fox News had obtained confirmation of this statement, like other media, also by anonymous sources. On Sunday morning, he finally invited his followers to call and write to the magazine’s majority shareholder, Laurene Jobs, to express their alleged discontent.
The publication of the article in The Atlantic followed that of an annual poll by the military magazine Military Times indicating a marked deterioration in the image of the president within the institution. Entered into the campaign denigrating the past as a soldier of Republican Senator John McCain, criticized for having been captured in Vietnam, even if his conditions of detention had been extremely harsh, Donald Trump has multiplied cavalier remarks vis-à-vis the military, who make plausible those loaned to him by The Atlantic.
In 2016, the former businessman had broad support in the US military. Four years later, he is now ahead in terms of voting intentions by his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, has often highlighted the route under the flags of his son Beau, who died in 2015 of a brain tumor. None of the president's eldest sons has a military background, like their father, who escaped conscription during the Vietnam War for "bony growths" on his feet. The president is viewed negatively by nearly 50% of those polled by the magazine among the active military, compared to almost 38% who disagree.
