MELANIA/MILITARY/SCANDAL: “President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery ‘filled with losers,’ as the Atlantic first reported.
Trump told reporters yesterday that he “called home” to Melania Trump at the time and told her how upset he was for not being able to visit the cemetery. At the time, the White House said he was unable to attend and had to cancel the visit because of bad weather…
Facts First: Melania Trump was on the same trip with the President and was scheduled to attend the cemetery visit. She was not in the US.”
-Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam, and Kevin Liptak, “Fact-checking Trump’s claims that he ‘called home’ to Melania during 2018 foreign trip she was on,” cnn.com, Sep. 5, 2020