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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump's brevity on John McCain speaks volumes about their strained relationship
WASHINGTON Amid the weekend's outpouring of tributes to Sen. John McCain, President Donald Trump's brief, 21-word tweet spoke volumes.
Since the start of his presidential campaign in 2015, when he said McCain's more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam didn't make him a war hero, Trump hasn't liked McCain. "I like people who weren't captured," he said then.
The feeling was mutual. McCain complained in 2015 that Trump "fired up the crazies" in his home state of Arizona over illegal immigration. A month before the election, McCain withdrew his support after Trump was caught on tape speaking in lewd fashion about assaulting women.
Over the years, Trump called McCain "very weak" on immigration, "foul-mouthed" and "a dummy." McCain has referred to the president as "poorly informed," "impulsive" and a proponent of "spurious, half-baked nationalism."
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Quite the projection there dotard.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Cadet Bone Spurs.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...within 5 minutes of being captured. What a big blowhard.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)About where we are right now.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)that reflect badly on him. Not on McCain.