{UAH} Donald Trump Not Even Bothering to Pretend He Didn't Hate John McCain's Guts
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Donald Trump Not Even Bothering to Pretend He Didn't Hate John McCain's Guts
It's hardly a secret that President Donald Trump and Arizona Sen. John McCain weren't exactly best buds while McCain was still alive. But now that the Republican senator has diedfollowing a lengthy battle with brain cancer, it's impressive to see just how committed Trump remains to being a complete and total dick to his longtime foil.
As the Washington Post reported on Sunday:
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and other White House aides advocated for an official statement that gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a "hero," according to current and former White House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The original statement was drafted beforeMcCain died Saturday, and Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said.
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But instead of releasing a statement that would have contradicted his previous insistences that McCain was "not a war hero" (McCain voluntarily stayed as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war for five years, during which time he was repeatedly tortured) Trump instead told his top aides that he'd just tweet something out instead. No official proclamation, no official praise.
Here, by the way, is what the President had to say:
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Wow, you can really feel the emotion, can't you?
It's even worse on Instagram, where Trump added a somber picture of....himself.
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