Early on in the presidential campaign, an interesting feud erupted between Senator John McCain and Donal Trump. The president questioned the veteran’s hero status in a remark that ticked a lot of service men and women off.
While the quarreling has mostly subsided, McCain and Trump still don’t see eye to eye, as the former has thrown a wrench into the president’s agenda on several occasions. Since McCain’s cancer diagnosis, the feud has especially been cold, but according to McCain’s daughter Meghan, she and Trump had a heart to heart about her father and she thinks that the president’s attacks on her father’s service won’t occur again.
As reported in the Daily Mail, Meghan McCain has revealed that she had a conversation with Trump concerning her father’s war injuries, after the president reached out to her personally.
“He [the president] actually reached out to me and we had a very nice conversation and I feel comfortable going forward if he would say or do anything in the realm of talking about my father’s war injuries in that nature, I don’t think he would go there again,” the View co-host said during a podcast with Politico’s Women Rule.
“I don’t think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way,” she added.
In 2015, a then-presidential hopeful Trump said of the Arizona senator “He’s not a war hero.“
“He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said, before remarking: “I like people that weren’t captured, OK?“
McCain was a naval aviator during the Vietnam War. He was shot an captured, and spent five years as a prisoner of war. He was tortured during his time and still suffers from his war-time injuries.
“I wish there would be sort of more respect in general but my father never toes the party line no matter who’s president,” McCain said. She said however, it is ‘rational’ her father would be a “thorn in Trump’s side.”
It’s a little disingenuous to call McCain’s stance on issues like immigration rational, as is acting like he’s brave or a “maverick” for supposedly not toeing the party line. McCain is purely self-interested, only doing things that will allow him to be a Republican in name only and still earn praise from the leftists who’s opinions he cares so much about.
His only principles are ensuring he gets some plaudits for being a “reasonable” Republican in cage-liners like the New York Times and Washington Post, facilitating the illegal invasion of the US, and pouring as much money possible into the defense budget. Everything he does is motivated by these three things, and it’s apparent the guy’s ego is enormous.
Source: Daily Mail