> “...how people on this thread are acting as if Trump insulted ALL POW’S when it is perfectly clear that he was addressing MC CAIN”
Exactly right. McCain was no hero according to the Commanding Officer of all POWs inside the Hanoi Hilton, Admiral Stockdale. He performed what was expected of him but he exhibited no heroism.
Yet in 2008 while unsuccessfully running for president McCain allowed the MSM to embellish his record as some sort of grand hero in Vietnam when it was a lie.
An honorable man would have immediately corrected the press by making a statement that his service was not heroic, that finer men than he exhibited brave acts of true heroism, that his suffering did not equate to acts of heroism.
Instead McCain allowed the lie to be perpetuated and in so allowing he stained the reputations of all true American heroes.
Suffering elicits sympathy and appreciation; embellishment invokes wrath and chastisement.
This is Mr. Trump’s response and he makes a great point.
https://m.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10155852371680725