Posted on 05/08/2018 7:13:04 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Arizona Senator John McCain, who for nearly a year has been diagnosed with brain cancer, has reportedly said that he does not want U.S. President Donald Trump attending his funeral.
Instead, McCain would like former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush reading his eulogy, NBC News said on Saturday based on a conversation with an unnamed source close to the 81-year-old politician.
"I don't know how much longer I'll be here," McCain separately says in an audio clip shared by NPR ahead of the release of his memoir, The Restless Wave.
Trump and McCain, who is a Vietnam war veteran and was a prisoner of war, have clashed over a variety of issues.
Trump controversially claimed during the run-up to the 2016 presidential primaries that McCain was only considered a hero "because he was captured" during the war, with the future president saying he prefers military heros who have not been captured.
McCain was said to be "deeply hurt" by Trump's comments, though in February 2018 his daughter Meghan, co-host of ABC's "The View," said in an interview with Politico that she does not expect Trump to continue criticizing her father's war service.
Mr. Trump] 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," she said at the time.
"I don't think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way."
The source close to McCain said that the plan is for Bush and Obama to serve as eulogists at the Arizona senator's funeral service, which is to be held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
McCain, who initially identified as an Episcopalian before starting to attend a Baptist church in Arizona with his family, lost the 2008 presidential general election to Obama.
The two had a strong rivalry during the campaign, with the LA Times pointing to a controversial ad from the Obama campaign at the time that poked fun for McCain not being able to send e-mail, which some noted could be interpreted to be making light of McCain's severe war injuries, which limit his use of a keyboard.
A spokesman for the Obama campaign later clarified that the ad was poking fun at McCain's age and his admittance of not being computer literate, rather than any disability.
McCain and Obama clashed on foreign policy issues during the latter's time as president, though they have also spoken in support of each other on several occasions.
Back in July 2017 following news reports of McCain's brain cancer diagnosis, Obama tweeted: "John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John."
How about that guy from Westboro Church. He would be a good fit.
For McCain’s military honors, Trump should order a formation of C130’s to fly over and dump full loads of
raw sewage.
IMHO what he really wants is one of his ISIS buddies to deliver the Eulogy.
I think Pence should go. IMHO if he did not that would be lowering himself to the lowest level of McCain.
Even if he doesn't he will continue to vote democrat.
VP Pence will go and he should.
What makes McCain think Obama wants to eulogize him?
What makes McCain think Obama wants to eulogize him?
The guy who dragged us back into Iraq, kept us in Afghanistan and who with Schumer have been the True leaders of the Senate...is almost gone.
Watch for a change in the Senate leadership as Turtle tries to keep in power.
McCain is truly outing himself as a bitter, petty, small man. He should have shut up and left somewhat of a positive legacy.......but no everything is about him...rip
No mystery...he was recruited by Harry Reid and his best friend in the Senate, Ted Kennedy to spy on the GOP.
Notice that during the Bush Administration, the DNC knew every play and decision GWB had in mind long before it went public.
On the day of McCain’s funeral, Trump will golf and Obama will talk about himself in front of people who have to listen. Both with McCain’s blessing to each do what they would rather be doing. Trump’s golf game will be better than Obama’s speech.
It should be a GREAT eulogy. Obozo will have it filled with me, me, me, I, I, I, me, me, I, I, I, oh yeah and the dead dude
Who needs a eulogy when an exorcism would be more appropriate.
McCain is a lot of things, but a war hero he’s not. Just the opposite. He collaborated with the enemy for preferential treatment.
“And to think I voted for him. And Bush. Shame.”
Same. The Bushes were good cons, except for ¿Yeb?, then the masks fell off completely. As for McCain, I was hoping he would win, have the grace to die very soon after, and we’d have President Palin.
Ah well. So much carnage.
More than likely, McCain has already written his own eulogy. He just had to pick the person who delivered it. There’s no way I’d leave any eulogy writing to Obama as it would turn into a commentary on what he’d accomplished in his eight years in office. McCain wants to make sure he pats himself on the back one last time, so he will have insured that any eulogy delivered will offer him nothing but praise. And he might even throw in a few digs at President Trump. I just hope that once he’s dead, wherever his soulless soul ends up, that he realizes just how much Conservatives truly hated him for selling the country out for his own selfish needs.
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