Did Trump really call dead soldiers losers?

Everything that the president of the United States says eventually hits the headlines, whether it be in private or public. Donald Trump gets the full treatment largely because he says some pretty extraordinary things on ocasions. In fact very regularly. I need hardly mention the advice to drink cleaning fluid to get rid of coronavirus. But now the Atlantic magazine has come up with a long article that includes the allegation, sourced to several unnamed officials, that he called soldiers killed in war and buried in cemeteries as "losers". Trump has angrily denied saying any such thing, insisting that everyone knows he is devoted to the military and thinks of them all as heroes.The article claims that in 2018 Trump refused to go and honour American servicemen killed in the First World War at a cemetery near Paris because the pouring rain would ruin his hair and he had no interest in going to a place where losers were buried. To be honest I cannot imagine anyone, let alone the US president, saying such a ghastly thing. Maybe he did use the word losers but in a different context. I'm trying to be impartial. I remember the row at the time about his hair. It had been bucketing in France all door - chats et chiens - and there were a lot of stories claiming that Trump was worried about his hair. But I also remember at the time that this was totally denied and that it was the Secret Service who refused to let him go to the cemetery because they were worried about road conditions for the convoy of heavy cars. Which explanation is true I don't know. But I do know the Secret Service is always excessively cautious about the president of the United States going anywhere, and the pouring rain might have been a reason to call off the cemetery visit. But did Trump really add that he didn't want to go anyway because the cemetery was filled with losers? Could he have said that? If he did then he deserves all the opprobrium coming his way. If he didn't or he was referring to something or someone else, like perhaps the Secret Service for stopping him going, then he has been outrageously libelled. Either way, it's the sort of allegation which will linger in the air for the next two months leading up to the November 3 election. Joe Biden is bound to bring it up. Who are these officials who overheard Trump saying it, or thought they did? Perhaps it's the Chinese putting it about! Trump has said so many weird things in the past that a lot of people will believe he described war-dead soldiers as losers, however hard he denies it.