Did anybody catch this response on NPR this morning?

[NewJeffCT]

Link to tweet

?s=19

I was wondering who the GOP operative was?

NPR Reporter: Why do you think the President has this lingering contempt for John McCain?

Republican Operative: I have no idea. I'm not a child psychologist.

[MissB]

1. Bwahahahaha

[at140]

2. It has got to be because McCain was the

Person who passed on the notorious Trump dossier to FBI.

[Wounded Bear]

3. That, and the healthcare vote...

but mostly, I think it is just simple envy. Trump knows he will never get the true respect that John McCain earned as a POW.

That's why he makes fun of McCain.

[at140]

5. I am sure it was dislike bothways

Trump was jealous of McCain for his national hero status, and McCain was jealous of Trump because he succeeded in becoming president where McCain failed.

Both these individuals are/were interensely egotistical.

[NewJeffCT]

11. anybody that runs for president

has some degree of ego - even the most modest Democrat.

[at140]

14. True true..but still matter of

Degree.

[BamaRefugee]

23. Excellent insight. Plus McCain married upwards to get rich...tRump screwed anyone to get rich

[Cha]

41. yeah, check out what The Ferret wrote..

If the emissions emanating front the presidential pulpit are a fair indicator, then the single largest threat facing the United States of America today isn't Russia, it isn't even climate change, it's...recently-deceased Senator John McCain. You can sleep easy, America, knowing your President is devoting every ounce of his extremely-limited mental energy to the McCain problem.

Yeah, I guess Donnie Two-Scoops has got a bug up his ass because nobody lavished him with praise for allowing Senator McCain a funeral, instead of mounting his head (or, more likely, that verdammte THUMB) on a pike on the White House lawn, like he really wanted to. Is there a Nobel Prize for Not Interrupting a Man's Memorial Service with an Air Horn?

Oh, and he's going around telling everybody that McCain pinky-swore to curb-stomp Obamacare and then piss on its corpse, only to betray his poor President at the very last minute, siding with all those sick plebs and their pre-existing conditions, the bastard.

And just like every other Trumpal assault on basic human decency, the GOP response is “thank you sir, may we have another?” Lindsey Graham pathetically mews “I sure would like it if you'd stop dishonoring my dead friend's memory, but if you don't want to, I guess that's ok, too.” Flubber-kneed cowards from Mitt Romney to Martha McSally offered up statements I can't even label “milquetoast” for fear of slandering both milk and toast. Johnny Isakson was so indignant, he kinda almost raised his voice a little bit, and Republicans are hailing it like the St. Crispin's Day speech. How any of these sycophants can make eye contact with their reflections is beyond me.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211940813

[NewJeffCT]

4. the mostly verified Dossier

Plus, I think the very public thumbs down on the Obamacare repeal poured salt in the wound.

[Iggo]

15. Plus, as much as I detest John McCain for his political stands...

....Trump will never be one tenth the man that McCain was.

[at140]

16. Trump versus McCain

Both have/had towering ego's
Both had multiple marriages.
Both cheated on their wives.

Trump drew first blood when he said soldiers who get shot down and captured are no national heroes. At the time he said that, he may have known that McCain was behind giving the Trump dossier to FBI. McCain obviously did not want Trump to succeed where he failed (getting elected president).

Then McCain continued the war by casting the deciding vote to keep Obamacare alive.

Sorry, I have no respect for either one of these cheating, egotistical, selfish, narcissistic, attention hungry, pompous individuals who don't give a rats ass for the common hardworking people.

[csziggy]

24. That's what bugs Trump the most, I think

Even though McCain did not win his presidential race, McCain is still far more respected than Trump ever will be - and that drives Trump nuts.

He just does not understand what it takes to be respected. He thinks the notoriety he (Trump) has gained should be the equivalent of respect.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

37. It also makes him crazy that McCain had

a red, white and blue, true hero military funeral with full honors - something that trmp will NEVER EVER have.

[magicarpet]

6. Trump knows some people hold McCain to be respectable....

.... trDump will never earn respect from other people. So he tears down and smears others hoping he can drag them down to his level and then push them a few notches behind trDump.

What better person for a bully to victimize than a man who has been dead for over six months. A dead man can no longer protect himself and strike back. An ideal victim for the coward bully trDump, he can trash and smear McCain,.. McCain can neither defend himself or fight back.

This makes the Fascist coward bully trDump feel almighty and powerful and enhances his despot persona,.. trDump wrestled a war hero and trDump pinned the war hero to the ground.

[NewJeffCT]

7. and, the GOP

is not doing a lot to stand up for McCain.

[certainot]

35. limbaugh has always hated mccain for dabbling with dems and media reform and maybe

mccain hated him for the ignorant lying shit he is and getting out of vietnam like trump did and what he did to the gop

trump is limbaugh's greatest 'achievement' with help from putin and he's trump's most important ally

and any significant gop figure siding with mccain would get some limbaugh attacks, maybe enough for a death threat or two

[sweetloukillbot]

8. If it's who I heard it was McCains press secretary

Mark Salter maybe?

[NewJeffCT]

9. Thanks

I was wondering who actually said it

[mgardener]

10. My 3 year old grandson

Has more empathy then Trump.
He laughs and smiles and says please and thank you. He is kind. And he only throws tantrums when he is exhausted.
And they do not happen every day.

Just think about what I just wrote. The POTUS does /has none of the above.

[NewJeffCT]

12. Almost 3 years ago

the late Charles Krauthammer, an original "Never Trump" Republican and a Harvard educated psychologist:

This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

[AlexSFCA]

13. dossier

it is the only rea reason because everything in it is 100% true.

[Tiggeroshii]

17. Probably the best answer

[Historic NY]

19. Maybe this broadcast....

[link:https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705395176/mccains-death-hasnt-stopped-trump-from-criticizing-the-ex-senator|]

[sandensea]

20. Envy, I should think.

With Cheeto, the explanation is almost always either money, or envy.

[Sneederbunk]

21. McCain lives . . . in Trump's head.

[NewJeffCT]

22. He has a free room there

right next to Hillary's room

[mnhtnbb]

27. And next to Obama's room, too.

Probably Hillary's room in the middle, with McCain's room on one side and Obama's room on the other.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[Firestorm49]

26. Three Cheers

[riversedge]

28. Omg! A Republican operative said that!!!

[red dog 1]

29. K&R

I think I heard that this morning.

[yourmovemonkey]

30. trump isn't unique

This is typical Republican behavior. They are never for anything, so much as they are against it's opposite. Even when they propose to build something new, the focus is always on what needs to torn down first to make room. Every issue is approached from some version of a negative viewpoint. Praise is reserved for another person's destructive qualities, or their ability to oppress others and enforce their will. McCain is on his mind, and he doesn't see anything that he esteems.

[Mr.Bill]

31. Blatantly proven

by the fact that they have yet to offer an alternative plan to the ACA that they are bent on "repealing and replacing".

[cstanleytech]

32. Thats because the ACA was what they wanted in the first place but when Obama pivoted to it

they found themselves in a tough spot as they did not want to support anything he was for even if they wanted it as well.

[Mr.Bill]

33. And the only thing wrong with the ACA

is that we had the courtesy to allow them to make 100+ amendments to it. That and the damage they've managed to do to it since it passed.

[Marcuse]

36. The idiot brazenly attacked Democrats for "obliterating Obamacare".

https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/06/trump-democrats-obliterate-obamacare

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/editorial/trump-warns-democrats-will-obliterate-obamacare-in-political-gaffe/2018/11/06/e98a6064-e1f5-11e8-ba30-a7ded04d8fac_video.html

[Nitram]

34. Yup, I caught that. Great retort.

[Talitha]

38. I heard it too.

Absolutely golden.

[pansypoo53219]

39. YES. and was amused.

[Capt. America]

40. For the win!

[Lisa0825]

42. YES! LMAO! I was on my way to work, and almost choked on my diet Coke!

I was so busy at work that I forgot about it, but posted it on fb tonight, and have since seen multiple references to it on social media.