"Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead," Goldberg wrote.

Goldberg also claimed Trump labeled as losers Marines who died at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I. Referring to the war, Trump allegedly asked: “Who were the good guys in this war?”

"He also said that he didn’t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies," Goldberg said, framing the remarks as "contempt" for American servicemembers. He pointed to how then-candidate Trump bashed former Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2015 for getting captured by enemy forces during the Vietnam War. “I like people who weren’t captured," he said.

President Trump later posted a series of tweets about McCain and saying he never called fallen soldiers anything other than "HEROES."