Donald Trump has a long history of disrespect for deceased members of the military and immigrants. Nowhere did his disdain for the two groups converge more intensely than after the murder of US Army soldier Vanessa Guillén, who called the former president a “damn Mexican” when informed of the costs of her funeral, according to a bombshell report from The Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday.

Guillén was 20 years old when she was killed by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2020. The high-profile case led to a slew of investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and mistreatment of enlisted women at the army base. Guillén was the daughter of Mexican immigrants, but was born in Houston and therefore an American citizen. Her parents were invited to the White House for a televised meeting with Trump, who promised he would help “financially” with the funeral. Given the attention surrounding her murder, a public memorial service was held for Guillén, followed by a smaller funeral attended by members of the Houston city council.

But while Trump appeared magnanimous in public, what went on behind the scenes was a different story. According to contemporaneous notes and interviews obtained by the Atlantic Ocean, on December 4, 2020, Trump asked his staff if he had been billed for the funeral. “What did it cost?” he asked.

When told that the total cost was $60,000, Trump was furious. “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a damn Mexican!” he reportedly told his then-chief of staff Mark Meadows. “Don’t pay it!”

Trump reportedly complained later in the day that these “damn people” are “trying to impeach me.”

A spokesperson for the former president denied the exchange, calling the story an “outrageous lie” The Atlantic Ocean two weeks before the elections.” A lawyer for Guillén’s family said this The Atlantic Ocean that although a bill was sent to the White House, no refund was ever received. Some of the funeral costs were instead covered by donations and the military.

It is certainly not the first time the former president has disparaged a member of the military in a moment of anger, but more frightening is Trump’s apparent belief that the armed forces owe him blind, unconditional loyalty.

Recently, Trump said the military should be used against American citizens who oppose him, whom he described as “the enemy from within.” In 2022, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly wrote in his memoir that Trump openly fantasized about having generals as loyal to him as “the German generals in World War II.”

When Kelly tried to remind Trump that the Nazi dictator’s top officials “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost succeeded,” Trump responded that “no, no, no, they were completely loyal to him.”

Kelly elaborated on the exchangerThe Atlantic Ocean Tuesday, adding that he asked Trump if he meant Otto Von Bismarck’s generals or the Franco-Prussian War.

‘I said, ‘Do you mean the Emperor’s generals? You don’t mean Hitler’s generals, do you?’ And he said, ‘Yes, yes, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after participating in a plot against Hitler,” Kelly recalls.

Trump was apparently unfamiliar with Erwin Rommel and the failed 1944 plot to assassinate the genocidal dictator that Trump apparently envied.

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump had said, according to the recollections of two people who spoke with The Atlantic Ocean. “People who were completely loyal to him, who followed orders.”