Trump warns McCain to 'be careful' about criticizing him: 'I fight back -- and it won't be pretty'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




BRAD REED
17 OCT 2017 AT 11:15 ET

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired back at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who on Monday delivered a speech slamming Trump’s brand of “half-baked nationalism.”

Appearing on talk radio station WMAL in Washington DC, Trump was asked about the criticism McCain leveled at him this week, in which he lashed out at “half baked, spurious nationalism” that’s being “cooked up by people who had rather find scapegoats than solve problems.”

“People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Trump told WMAL radio host Chris Plante. “You know, I’m being very nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”

Trump has regularly attacked McCain after the senator was a key vote against the Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act this past summer. In addition to McCain, Trump has also regularly picked fights with Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

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[cilla4progress]

1. Well, this could be

mccains swan song.

Really. REALLY??? Are the repubs going to let a dying war hero do their dirty work for them?

They are alll scum..

[global1]

2. What's Trump Gonna Do....

give McCain brain cancer or something?

[Homer Wells]

46. I've got a nice bowl of popcorn, ready to watch the two of them

go at it in the Octagon.

[DesertRat]

3. McCain has brain cancer

And Trump is warning that he might say some mean things.

[Liberalagogo]

4. Bring it on...

pigfucker.

[txwhitedove]

40. Exactly!

[Botany]

5. How much longer is this shit storm gonna last?

The man is obviously insane.

[dhill926]

6. Real tough guy...

asshole...

[Achilleaze]

7. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is always attacking America's veterans

He needs to STFU, and take his rightful place in the Chickenhawk republican Draft-Dodger Hall of Shame.

[DBoon]

8. so can McCain expect polonium poisoning in his future?

That's how Trump's buddy Putin got rid of an inconvenient critic.

[yuiyoshida]

9. Just like a bully however,

You don't mess with John McCain, he will mess you up, dude!

[Juliusseizure]

10. I'd be hurling expletives like Joe Pesci

[Submariner]

11. Is this the part where Sarah Huckabee said I should start "begging" for 4 more years of Trump,

or did I get ahead of myself here?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. No, you're not "being nice."

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You're an asshole.

You're pathologically incapable of being anything other than an asshole.

[Scarsdale]

31. As long as he has secret service protection

he is tough as nails!! Wait until EVERYONE discovers how truly BROKE he is, then watch the supporters abandon him. Big, ugly, orange, FAT, gross mess of a human being.

[coolsandy]

13. I just don't understand the unwavering support of the military and their families for this

draft-dodging, liar-in-Chief. No one disrespects the military more than 45 does.

[sarge43]

41. Obedience and respect are not the same thing.

Service personnel all take an oath to obey the president. Not mumbling word in the oath or the UCMJ about thinking he's a soulless coward. In this one situation silence does not imply consent or agreement.

[atreides1]

51. True

They also take an oath to support and defend the Constitution...and that part precedes the part to follow the orders of the President!

So, the question here is, if pressed what will the military do...obey a president who willingly violates the Constitution, or defend the Constitution?

[sarge43]

52. Tough question with no easy answer

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I asked myself that a couple of times during Watergate. You're right; the Constitution comes first. I'd like to think that I'd defend it even if it meant possibly being strung up for mutiny. That's me; however what the troops think today, that's another matter.

The other problem is a military coup. Even for the most righteous reason that would be the end of us.
Hypotheticals: Trump's removed by the top brass; who takes his place? With the possible exception of Tillerson and Mattis, the order of succession is flunkies, idiots and self servers all the way down. Would a general take over (and it's always generals, never admirals)? That's the ballgame right there. Would the military impose its will on a replacement POTUS? Would that top brass willingly allowed themselves to be punished or at minimum step aside? Finally as they say, if you strike at the king, don't miss. Otherwise, Trump would destroy the armed forces right down to the slick sleeves. Finally however it played out, what's left of civilian trust and respect for the military would quick step to the latrine/head.

So to defend the Constitution, it allows for legal methods to remove a president. If it's ignored, then it's violated.

[RobinA]

54. They Went For Bush II

who barely even showed up for his stateside "military" gig and who ran twice against actual war veterans. The military's voting record is laughable in my opinion.

[Sanity Claws]

14. Spoken like a true thug

45's thuggish behavior knows no bounds.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

15. "People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,"

Hmmm, that looks familiar...

"Ari Fleischer, condemned Bill Maher's irreverent comic response to 9/11 by reminding "all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2006/09/fear_factor.html


McCain should tell Trump to "bring it on". Even in the throes of brain cancer, his thought processes are far superior to Trumps messed up mind. It wouldn't even be close.

[Sunlei]

21. trumps famous "I'll ruin you" threat he throws at people who refuse him whatever.

[PearliePoo2]

16. Fight? Donald in a real fight? Give me a break!

The only fighting you've done in your entire life was your battle to avoid syphilis and gonorrhea when you're whoring around. Hey asshole, those are your own words. That's your personal Vietnam ( fighting STD's), remember?
Can there be a more disgusting piece of shit on the planet?

[not fooled]

47. Plus

lawyering up in order to stiff people who have done work for him.

[Sinistrous]

17. More of Trump's trademark

"Rule by thuggery"

[safeinOhio]

18. McCain has lots of friends in congress.

Go ahead and make them Vote with McCain on your health care and tax bills.

[chelsea0011]

19. So McCain does what elected officials do is question policy at certain times and

trump returns favor by threatening him. This guy is some kind of fucked up.

[Sunlei]

20. Trump attacks North Korea because they're weakest country & attacks (R) McCain because brain cancer.

McCains fellow Republicans won't stand up for him against Trump either! deplorable.

[PJMcK]

22. Trump is going to "fight back"?

I'm sure Senator McCain is trembling at the thought of Trump sending out an early-morning tweet calling the Senator a name.

Trump is a 7-year old bully in the playground at recess. He doesn't know how to fight.

[karynnj]

23. Trump ignores that McCain, at this point, had nothing political to lose and Trump does

McCain also has credibility and the respect of many and I assume a huge amount of sympathy and respect that he continues to work with the terrible diagnosis that he has. I know the core Trump base did not care during the election and I doubt they care now -- even insulting him on twitter as a "Democrat" ! However, Trump will need more than his core base.

[RobinA]

55. Yeah, Threatening McCain

is another example of him making a total ass of himself. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, Donnie. Think about it. Oh wait, you don't think. OK, keeping Tweeting away at a dead man who is still functional, has respect, friends in high places, is himself in a high place, sympathy, and probably a long career's worth of favors outstanding. Hopefully he burns you big!

[CTyankee]

24. How long do you think Trump would last as a POW the way McCain did?

And McCain still has his injury that the No. Vietnamese inflicted on him...

Trump would be crying and screaming the minute they laid hands on him...

[sarge43]

42. Trump couldn't have made it a day in boot let alone a POW hell hole. n/t

[world wide wally]

43. Trump would have sold out on the first offer..... maybe a pack of smokes

[King_Klonopin]

25. My money is on McCain. I'd love to see him literally kick his ass. nt

[C_U_L8R]

26. Bring it on Trumpface.

McCain knows how to deal with blowhards like you.

[Laffy Kat]

27. What a bully and effing coward. nt

[Grammy23]

28. tRump STILL doesnt get it that he needs friends in Congress.

When it all comes to a head and he needs VOTES for his half baked policies and ideas, he might wish that he had held his forked tongue and not piled on to McCain so viciously. I hope that Congress gives him a lesson on what kicking a guy when he is down will get you. tRump is way overdue for some karma. I hope I am around to see him get his share.

[VaBchTgerLily]

29. SUCH A BIG FAT HORSES ASS!!!

[Aviation Pro]

30. Fuckface....

...ought to walk softly in the wake of the Weinstein issue. There are a lot of people looking in his direction, the fucking rapist.

[Lifelong Protester]

32. My money's on the Navy guy.

[fierywoman]

36. I'm no fan of McCain, but he had the courage to not leave as soon as the N Vietnamese

offered and instead stayed until all his men could leave with him.

[Lifelong Protester]

45. I agree.

He's got nothing to lose.

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Spoken like a true despot. The rotting orange moron doesn't believe in democracy.

[MFM008]

34. Is he going to get Russian hookers

to piss on McCain?
Im sure McCain has never faced
a greater problem than this piece of maggot shit.

[orangecrush]

35. Draft dodger threatens war hero

Woooooooooo!

Bet McCain is shaking!

(NOT)

[Duppers]

49. Yep.

Posted below before seeing yours.

Totally agree.

[radhika]

37. Nothing from Trump is ever pretty...

How do we distinguish between a flame war, personal vengeance, long-planned policy moves and just plain madness?

And the Trump Base is fine with their Pig Sty Presidency. Slurping it up avidly. Even if it poisons them.

[geretogo]

38. I don't know about any body else but I live in a state of high anxiety with this mentally ill

mobster in the White House . He could end life on earth with just a few codes .

[spotthebird]

39. Speculation: Blackmail

Think Cindy doesn't know John cheated on her? Does she care?

Does John care if Cindy cheated? He has terminal cancer, they have bigger problems than decades old infidelity now.

[padah513]

44. He's starting to believe his own hype

He's a mean spirited putz who tweets insults like a adolescent. I'm hoping he attacks McCain and one or more of the repubs grow enough backbone to tell him to shut up. Doubt it would happen, but there's always hope.

[Duppers]

48. Oh yeah, McCain is quivering in his boots okay.

IdiotInChief, this man has been a prisoner of war and he's not afraid of you.

INC (IdiotInChief) cannot do a thing to the old man.

[Loyd]

50. When has Trump ever FOUGHT?

I'll bet he was that kid in school who spent most the time in his locker!

[GopherGal]

53. Didn't he rough up Ivana?

... over some hair-transplant thing gone awry?