Posted on 08/31/2018 8:03:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With Senator John McCain's recent passing, the Trump-McCain feud has heated up. It's really a manufactured kerfuffle, as one party is saying little, and the other party has departed from the living, no longer able to participate in the feud, except posthumously via the media.
Leave it to the media to resurrect the controversy between the late senator and the U.S. president as a means of bashing President Trump, whom the media detest. It is also a distraction from the stock market breaking records left and right, a new and better trade deal with Mexico, a country that the media constantly tell us hates Trump and won't do business with him, Bruce Ohr's congressional testimony, and other news the media would prefer to ignore.
Trump has been criticized over the past four days for his response to Senator McCain's passing. He wasn't personal enough, they say, even though the president appropriately tweeted, "My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!"
Then the media fussed and pouted over how long the flag over the White House should be flown at half-mast. The flag flew that way appropriately after McCain's death, but the time period wasn't enough. CNN probably wants it at half-mast permanently until Trump is out of office, although another six and a half more years at half-mast might be a bit excessive.
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Of course, the propaganda media wants you to think that. If you had read the accompanying article, you would see that McCain had recently called the people at a Trump rally the “crazies.” This happened only days before one of candidate DJT’s (in my opinion) worst errors. IIRC, he tried to smooth over that statement in his next sentence, probably realizing that his statement was in very poor taste. Of course, the propaganda media never writes the next sentence.
I welcome a brief chronology indicating how McCain Insulted Trump publicly before trump struck back. Thanx in advance.
i re-read your post and stand corrected.
I think Trump denigrated the service of ALL POWs with his comments. What he said was ridiculous and inexcusable, he owes many a heartfelt apology. Obviously, I have never been a POW, but I am betting that for the most part, many of them felt guilt for being captured and didn’t need Donald Trump to reaffirm their beliefs. I voted for DJT and I support him but I will never understand why he did this.
Here’s why:
Reported in The New Yorker on July 16, 2015, a few days after a Trump campaign rally held in Phoenix, in McCain’s home state, McCain offered his displeasure over the rally. “It’s very bad,” he said. Going farther, “[t]his performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”
This rally was held on Saturday, July 11, 2015, as reported by Politico. The dates are important.
Trump-supporters are “crazies,” according to Senator McCain, those people willing to stand in line for hours to see and hear their favored candidate for president. I wonder if McCain ever had such crowds at his campaign rallies in 2000 or 2008, at least before he brought Sarah Palin onto his ticket.
Insulting Trump-supporters is the same as insulting Trump, at least in Trump’s view. As he is hardwired to do, when insulted, he hits back.
In Iowa, a week later, on July 18, 2015, Trump was interviewed and delivered his response to McCain’s calling Trump-supporters, and, by default, Trump himself, “crazy.” Trump said, “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
The feud was off and running, but who started it? From the dates, McCain drew first blood, and Trump responded as he always does: with a right cross.
“I like people who weren’t captured” is where he lost it, he had to add this final, all encompassing BS comment, making sure that every family who lost a loved one as a POW was captured because they were stupid, thus unlikeable. OR a POW who gave years in captivity. It was a senseless comment and achieved nothing..
I think you meany decade...
“Trump should have replied to the half-staff flag fiasco with a copy of the rules and regulations for flying a flag at half mast.”
That’s one thing that often disappoints me with Trump — when he begins to channel GWB and refuses to defend himself. This is one example. He could’ve tweeted the official “day-of-death and day-after-death” protocol. But he didn’t.
When he’s called a bigot/racist, he never points out that he was the only FL country club owner in that elite section of the state to insist that blacks and Jews be allowed to join.
When he’s called a misogynist, he never shows statistics on the female-heavy demographic in his company’s executive group.
These slams are easy to refute, but he doesn’t.
“McCain SHOULD HAVE been pissed at the people who gave him the phony dossier ... So, he must have ... been a part of it.”
There you go. I edited it for you. He was in up to his neck from the get-go. A slimy, jealous, treasonous SOB to the end.
Yes. I believe it started with the Whacko Birds comment.
“You can’t humiliate and insult people and expect their support.”
Tell that to his co-candidates who do support him now, e.g., Carson, Cruz, and others. I think you CAN expect their support if supporting Trump is for the greater good, i.e., the survival of America. If those like McCain, Jeb and his family, et al., will allow a verbal insult to motivate them to take down this country, then there’s a special place in Hell for them.
Who of us hasn’t been insulted, humiliated, etc.? We cope.
Thank You..
Point taken ...I am an example of what is in Congress...OLD. AND OUT OF DATE..Time for new...
nah, I just happened to catch it. I thought it might’ve been a bit of a sideways remark (like they are ancient). ;)
Bushes and others. I didn’t say all, but you can’t know in advance whose support you will lose. he fired his cannons and he lives with the result
Trump did what McCain couldn’t..become President.
McCain was at the signing of the Declaration and therefore he thought, wrongly, that Trump should put up with his crap.
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