Trump: Pentagon leaders want war to keep contractors ‘happy’

President Donald Trump during Monday’s news conference at the White House (Patrick Semansky/AP)

President Donald Trump has said that US defence chiefs want to carry on waging wars in order to keep defence contractors “happy”.

Mr Trump continues to fight allegations that he made offensive comments about fallen US service personnel, including calling First World War dead at an American military cemetery in France “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. The Atlantic first reported on the anonymously sourced allegations.