Former President Donald Trump called the late U.S. Army soldier Vanessa Guillen a “f***ing Mexican” after he discovered the cost of her funeral that he offered to pay for, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday.
A Houston native and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, the 20-year-old Guillen was murdered in 2020 by a fellow soldier while on base in Fort Hood, Texas, a notoriously difficult location for women in the army. Her murder sparked outrage across the country and was a catalyst for a national investigation into sexual harassment and abuse against women in the U.S. Army.
