President Donald Trump has come under fire for his ‘insensitive’ choice of words when speaking to the pregnant widow of one of the special forces solider killed Niger.
Trump phoned Myeshia Johnson on Tuesday afternoon to give his condolences over the death of her husband Sgt. La David Johnson.
She took the phone call while she was on her way to Miami International Airport where her husband’s remains were arriving on a commercial flight, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson who says she was sitting beside the grieving widow.
President Trump phoned Myeshia Johnson on Tuesday afternoon to give his condolences over the death of her husband Sgt. La David Johnson
Johnson, who is expecting the couple’s third baby in January, later sobbed as she leaned over her husband’s coffin
During the five minute call, Trump told Johnson that her husband ‘knew what he signed up for… but when it happens it hurts anyway’.
‘Yes, he said it,’ Wilson told WPLG. ‘It’s so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn’t have said it.’
Johnson, who is expecting the couple’s third baby in January, later sobbed as she leaned over her husband’s coffin.