Trump is very sick. The sooner the GOP realizes it and acts on the conclusion, the better off we’ll all be.
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All bullies are cowards. It's easy and safe to beat up someone who's dead and can't fight back.
While I did not vote for John McCain, I think it's obvious that he served his nation honorably, something Donald Trump is incapable of ever doing.
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Trump is a disgrace. What is more concerning is why so many people voted for him.
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Two words for you “Bone Spurs” that explains it all. Trump is simply a entitled chicken hawk.
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unfit to be president, unfit to serve our country, unfit husband for sure. just how will go down in history? kinda scary thought to me. first he claims to champion veterans, staffing the va with special guests of his many properties.like to see the numbers on that stat.
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It's pretty simple. Trump is, at heart, a coward and a shameless narcissist. He simply can't stand the fact that his biggest rival among Republicans was 10x the man that he will ever be, and in so many ways: patriotism; duty to country; honesty; ethical behavior; intelligence; integrity; courage; faithfulness; and loyalty. McCain served his country heroically; Trump shied away like the coward that he is and always will be. McCain understood the term "duty to country": Trump believes the country's duty is only to him; McCain was married for decades and obviously had a great relationship with his children; Trump has been a career philanderer who revels in in unfaithfulness. McCain knew the Constitution and the laws of the country inside-out; Trump has neither the patience nor the mental acumen to digest any of that (to him) nonsense. McCain had real friends; Trump has only "associates" who he flips on whenever it's convenient for him, and who in turn (several of them) are flipping on him like Mafiosi on acid. When all is said and done, Trump is a pathetic excuse for a man and McCain was a man's man. Which drives Trump nuts. Literally. Because he's not mature enough or mentally stable enough to do anything about it.
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I'm going to get a big blow up poster picture of John McCain and his thumbs down moment in the Senate on the healthcare vote. Donald Trump will never ever get over that.
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Somehow in his upbringing Donald Trump was not taught even the most basic rules about appropriate social and civic behavior. He is uncouth, uncultured, insensitive to social norms and polite behavior. He does not care to learn or understand appropriate attitudes or actions for any reason under any circumstances.
As bad as he is and has been and will be, the GOP Senate is worse. They are all cowards, self-interested fools lead by a man I consider to be the epitome of evil, Mitch McConnell. They could have stopped him or severely restricted him from Day 1, but they have no interest.
I do believe, as Mr. Conway, that Trump is mentally "off." Aside from not being able to talk like an intelligent person, he is clearly narcissistic, egomaniacal, cold-hearted, and blinded by his overwhelming need to boast about himself.
FOX and all those who work there, and Sinclair, have great responsibility for the dire circumstances we are in and the owners of those networks are very guilty of misleading the public for their own selfish purposes.
I am not alone in that I hope the Democrats go into the red states and teach people why it is the GOP is their worst enemy. Go in with charts, graphs, and examples of people whose lives are worse off since Trump. Go in with handouts of every single lie. Go in with all the protocols he has ignored and programs he has trashed. Go in armed with detailed, verified information.
Attacking a dead hero is disgustingly callow. The answer is dump Trump.
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Sarah... work with us here. Donald Trump is not the only person able to address veteran's issues. Instead, just maybe... there just might be be some god-fearing, honest-abled folks that don't check the width of their wallet nor the colour of their hat who have worked a lot longer than DJT to do good. Give your head a shake. It clears the mind. You are being suckered by a man who doesn't even care and think about veterans. If everyone could stop having to guide Trump to a "time out" corner of the class, America could be pretty great again." Your man has problems.
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Tragically, this increasingly feels like a macabre restaging of the Cadaver Synod in which Pope Stephen VI exhumed the corpse of Pope Formosus, dressed him in vestments and put him on trial in 897. In this restaging, Trump of course occupies all the roles, not yet realizing that behind the mask of Senator McCain as Formosus is his own face.
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Many years ago, the Municipality of Kolkata, WB, India renamed the street on which the US consulate is located to 'Ho Chi Minh Sarani (I.e., street), a name most loathed by the US but requiring it to officially list its Kolkata consulate address as being the Ho Chi Minh Sarani.
I like the idea proposed by one of the comnenters here: rename the Russel building to John McCain Building while Trump is still in office.
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Trump is essentially a spoiled child who is truly an expert in talking to his "base". To them, there is an internal logic and pseudo-reality that transcends facts as presented by the media. He sells soft lies.
McCain committed treachery by forwarding the report on to the FBI without clearing it with Trump (master of the universe) - a cardinal sin.
His followers accept these soft lies, delivered in a heartfelt tone of it is just us, alone, against larger numbers of wolves, devils, and Democrats.
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If John McCain was able to walk up to Trump, look him in the eye, and tell him exactly what he and most of the rest of us think of him, Trump would be reduced to a quivering mass.
Then he'd send vile tweets.
That's the difference between men like John McCain and cowards like Donald Trump. One faces the enemy. The other hides until the coast is clear.
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Trump is using McCain as a distraction. He doesn’t want you and the media to be thinking about his financial records and court cases. Merely a horrible nasty no good distraction. Don’t play along.
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Our commander in cowardice can be added to cheat and corruption. His Republican enablers can begin by censuring him and then calling for impeachment hearings.
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Because the soul of this brave veteran still haunts him in the White House. Because he is jealous when the leaders of the world praise this great soldier. Because John McCain was a true patriot.
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Trump is the modern Pushmi-Pullyu - he obsesses over whether others like him while at the same time giving everyone ample reason to loathe him.
He couldn't pass the psychological screening normally given to a forklift operator at Home Depot.
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I just finished reading the Times editorial that deservedly praised Jacinda Ardern leadership after the mass shooting at the Christchurch mosque. Her swift action, compassion for victims and survivors and her determination to deny the murderer the attention he craved is nothing less than inspirational.
Then I turned to this-- the story of my president's "feud" with a dead hero. A petty, nasty, vicious and vulgar little man who resents anyone who is better than himself, which is pretty much the entire world. It is an absolute disgrace that this man was elected with 48% of the popular vote. I am utterly ashamed to be an American.
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Trump's conscience is troubled by bone spurs.
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This draft-dodger can't stop trashing McCain. He's insanely jealous of the man and hero that McCain was and he will never be. His rantings and ravings don't even make sense. Imagine wanting a thank you note for the funeral that he thinks he gave McCain. He really is deplorable. How is it possible for veterans, servicemen and women and their families support this person. He cares nothing about them, he's too busy being self-serving.
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The John McCain Senate Office Building. I like it. I really do. And the burn will last for the rest of Trump's life. He'll make sure of it.
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Bullies are invariably cowards themselves and like to pick on easy targets who can't defend themselves. Trump is a bully and John McCain is an easy target because he's dead and can't respond.
Also, vilifying Hillary Clinton, while still popular with Trump's base, is getting a little old since she's not running for President in 2020. So Trump is looking for a new villain in order to raise himself up.
It's also worth noting that Trump is a master at creating distractions from the real issues at hand, which include the Mueller investigation. Trump's disparaging remarks about McCain are creating a controversy, and that controversy serves as a distraction.
But whatever the reasons, Trump's renewed attacks on McCain are beyond despicable. Just when you think he can't go any lower, he manages to find a way.
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I suggest that this is simply one more pitiful, but savvy attempt by our President to change the subject. The one thing Donald Trump does well is to create distractions to draw journalist's attention away from the shambolic grifting that they should really be writing about. Instead, he can wave them off the scent by saying something stupid and outrageous, which then becomes the story of the day.
Journalist's and fellow citizens: Can we please pay less attention to Trump's latest utterings, and more to the conduct of his administration. Frankly, Trump's bleating about McCain means nothing to me.
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I am afraid that those who fervently rally behind Trumps demonization of John McCain know very little about the lives of either man. Some people choose ignorance.
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Donal Trump is unfit to be president of anything. He must demean others to attempt to elevate his miserable self.
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Why Trump Keeps Attacking John McCain: Cuz he's dead and can't punch in the nose.
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I see remarkable similarities in behavioral patterns in our current Prime Minister (India) Mr Modi and President Trump.
I cannot but wonder if both were trained with the same objectives in mind. Both have demolished whatever reputation their respective countries had, and both have demonized the press. The same overt support for the extremist right wing groups. Worst of all, both have misused their positions to undermine the institutions of the state for their own vested purposes.
Mr Modi has repeatedly belittled India's first Prime Minister Nehru but has achieved very little himself, and Mr Trump does something very similar!
I wonder if it is time to change the election system in our democracies to make them "full-of-it"-proof.
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As with all things Trump, you have to look at the emotional underpinnings of his behavior.
It’s sadly simple: his obsession with Obama. When McCain during a townhall told that elderly woman that Obama was, indeed, not a “Muslim” but an American family man, Trump seethed. McCain was thereafter given credit for his integrity for defending Obama against sick birtherism.
It is Obama, actually, that keeps Trump awake at night.
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The guy in the White House must feel the squeeze of the upcoming report from the Office of the Special Counsel.
I suspect he is setting the scene for using McCain as a whipping boy on healthcare and Russia. Who better to blame than a dead man?
When will the Republican enablers wise up? Don't they realize that the guy in the White House doesn't care about the country or them?
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Of course DJT keeps attacking John McCain. Bullies love victims who can’t fight back. Trouble is, DJT is losing this fight, because Senator McCain was and is such a man of accomplishment and stature. He diminishes DJT by his legacy; and DJT is too myopically vain to realize this. Sad!
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Don't you have to first choose to serve your Country before you can become a POW? Trump chose a 200.00 bill from a Dr. for services rendered.
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Envy always wishes to destroy.
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President Trump insults others using terms that seldom are truly descriptive of the others, but are so obviously factually descriptive of himself. His insults are clear examples of what psychologists and psychiatrists term “projection”.
Trump’s projective insults indicate the degree to which he lacks all self awareness and is himself deeply insecure.
This is evident to anyone who has taken Psychology 101.
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Wandering the lonely white House halls in the dead of night or at his polished dinner table, does Trump see the ghost of the honorable John McCain accusing him of cowardice or colluding with the enemy much as Mac Beth saw that of Banquo? Trump has long since given up speaking to living people in any meaningful way which has degraded to the point of tweets and grunts. So perhaps ghosts are all he has left.
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Whatever else he accomplished in his political career, Richard Russell was a white supremicist and from the first to the last, and opposed every piece of civil rights legislation which ever came before him, including twice helping to block anti-lynching laws in 1936 and 1938. He never softened his views and remained a staunch believer in segregation until the day he died.
The fact that his name remains on one of the three Senate buildings is an utter disgrace!
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In the 60s it was the Dems/Hippies accused of spitting on Vietnam Vets. Now it's the Republicans and there is no doubt.
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Trump had everything handed to him in life and has never had to put in a full day's work in in his 5ix decades masquerading as an adult. He figured that if a black man could do the job of being president by working 10 hours a day, day in and day out, he could get by working 2 hours a day for only 4 days a week and spend the rest of the time goofing off, something he has always been extremely good at.
Trump has an endless need to blame someone/anyone/everyone for the predicament he has gotten himself into, and blaming a dead man who can no longer fight back fits both trumps psychology and that of his brain dead followers.
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I struggled to understand why Trump would continue has rants against McCain until I figured out that like Trump, this is not very complicated. Trump is a racist and therefore he identifies with that group who can never forgive the guy who lost to the first African American president. They just cannot get past that whole Obama thing!
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It's a test. If Trump can get his base - Republicans- to parrot his McCain-hate, he's that much closer to whatever nasty outcome his handlers have in mind.
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I believe Trump’s latest denigration of McCain was a very public test of Lindsay Graham’s loyalty, as well as other’s. In other words, “when I’m being my most monstrous, who’s still hanging in?” It’s his shooting someone on 5th Avenue to see who might shed a glycerine tear but still won’t go after the perp. Graham passed, leaving his so-called dearest friend to roll in his grave and McCain’s family to now suffer betrayal. I think Trump’s will drop Pence for 2020 for his new golf caddy Graham. Stay tuned for more awful.
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Why would you think ? McCain was everything that Trump isn't and will never be. He was a hero.
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Clearly, the problem is ghosts. See the movie or watch reruns of the Medium. Charles Dickens knew it. Wake up America!
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Deep down in whatever passes for his soul, trump viscerally recognizes that the people whom he vilifies are morally and intellectually his superiors. trump cannot and never will demonstrate the character of the Khans, Hillary, and especially John McCain.
The Khans chose to become Americans and paid the price of their citizenship with the service and death of their son. Hillary, despite her problems, demonstrated the intellect and work ethic that trump has always lacked.
John McCain's heroism and integrity (and he would be the last person to ever claim himself a "hero") was manifest in his refusal to accept a special deal from Hanoi for an early release from captivity, choosing instead to remain with his comrades until they all were released. Although people may have disagreed with Senator McCain on issues, he nevertheless represented a life devoted to honor, grace, dignity, self-effacement, and unwavering public service--always acting in the best interests of the United States.
Intellect, integrity, bravery, self-sacrifice, devotion to duty, and genuine patriotism are nowhere in trump's DNA. Hence his adolescent disparagement of those who do demonstrate those characteristics.
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Several possibilities:
1) Deflection from pending Mueller report,
2) Envy (as many have stated),
3) Mental defect (also, stated by many) and
4) He is deliberately trying to taint himself - so he will not be renominated or re-elected (as he assumed in 2016).
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Mr. Trump continues to demonstrate that he is unfit for any public office by his attacks on Senator McCain and others. His only concern is self-promotion. In Mr. Trump’s opinion, everything he does is bigger and better than anyone in history. Out of the blue he continues to attack anyone who has ever opposed him. The attacks on Senator McCain show desperation and delusion. Seriously, is there no Republican that will step up and challenge Mr. Trump?
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To all Americans who support Donald Trump. You can't let him do this. Let him do all of the things you support him for, but don't let him act so wrongly in this instance.
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What Mr. Trump says about McCain cannot hurt McCain or diminish the moral gravitas and patriotism that was part of McCain's life.
What should bother anyone with any decency is to know there are those who sit in the audience and listen to Mr. Trump's denigrating a war hero and saying and doing nothing to let Mr. Trump know he is totally wrong in his actions.
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The US war on Vietnam was itself entirely dishonorable and it was dishonorable for me and everyone else who participated to prosecute that war, an utterly monstrous, illegal and unjustifiable war to prevent Vietnamese self-determination. It was likewise dishonorable for John McCain to bomb and strafe anything and anyone he ever attacked there. That said, however, it was undeniably heroic, by any standard, for John McCain, permanently partly disabled from his injuries, maltreatment and torture by his captors, and with only more of the same to look forward to, to refuse repatriation ahead of his fellow prisoners. It is a pity and a shame that a man with such magnificent reserves of bravery and determination was an opportunist who spent his political life largely in service and in thrall to the Republican Party’s disgusting objectives of winning ever more wealth and power for the wealthy and powerful.
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Trump must feel less than and he is right. A lot less.
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Trump does not respect the military from McCain to all the others who have put their lives at risk to defend our country. Trump sees the military as one more tool he can employ to his self aggrandizement and his political entity to serve his personal interests. Deploying the military to the southern border and declaring a phony emergency to pander to his cult of border wall fans while the Marine commander says today that is a disservice to the troops depriving them of resources to rebuild hurricain damaged housing and training needed for our national security. A handful of starving toddlers at the border are not a threat to our national security while an erratic self absorbed president surely is.
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In the run up to the 2016 election I was certain that Trump had crossed the line when he criticized John McCain. While I did not agree with much of his conservative beliefs, I always believed McCain an honorable, smart and strong person for having survived what happened to him in the war. I seriously thought many if not most of his supporters would realize what a shallow, cruel person Trump is and abandon him in droves. I'm still stunned to this day it didn't happen and that Trump won regardless of his many faults, including his awful comments about a war hero. That he continues insulting McCain to this day is beyond belief - just like the rest of his behavior.
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First of all, I would like to state for the record that, to me, John McCain was and remains an example of all that is good, decent, and yes, heroic, not only in this country but also internationally. The fact that Trump continues to disparage such a great man reflects the fact that the current President feels dwarfed by Mr. McCain’s accomplishments and stature. It is a guttersnipe trying to demean a pillar of our society. All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. McCain, and his name will always be spoken with respect and love. And how will Trump be remembered? I’ll leave that answer to history.
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My suggestion in late August was printed in our city newspaper and would hopefully bring about some reconciliation between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and rightfully ignore Trump's insecure petulance:
Congress should foster bipartisanship and rename the Russell Senate Office Building the McCain-Kennedy Senate Building for John McCain and Ted Kennedy. Both of those long-serving esteemed senators — one Republican, one Democrat — worked across the aisle for decades to pass bipartisan legislation. Aside from sometimes working together in the Senate, a coincidence is that both also died of the same cancer on exactly the same day of the year.
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He can't let go of Obama, either. But if you are going to rename the Russell Building, there are better possibilities than McCain, who as a Senator too often put personalities ahead of national interest.
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Easy. It gives GOP lawmakers an easy, no-cost way to deplore Trump.
That way they can say they opposed him, without ever having to do anything substantive.
Such a gift!
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The Magnitsky Act was signed into law by President Obama on December 14, 2012. The legislation initially encountered resistance from the Obama Administration, but in Congress, Senator Benjamin Cardin, and Senator McCain convinced an overwhelming majority to support it. It has been very effective in sanctioning the oligarchs responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, among other human rights abuses.
The Global Magnitsky Act simply wouldn’t exist without Senator John McCain.
This is the part of John McCain’s legacy that irritates Putin so much that he reportedly sent a Kremlin lawyer to Trump Tower in June, 2016, to discuss lifting these sanctions.
Public reporting has also shown that Russian business have underwritten loans to Trump through Deutsche's Private Bank.
This is why it is so important to investigate if there are links between potential sanctions relief for individuals affected by the Magnitsky Act , and relief of any debts held by public officials.
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@LVin
Thank you for reminding us of the Global Magnitsky Act. Your informative comment is rather unusual - it is factual -the rest of us, I included, are victims of Trump mania. His rhetoric is mesmerizing, it's in-your-face insult after insult, and fogs up rational response. He is the perfect camouflage for the Republican Party's platform that has given cause for his successful election.
as it appears the rest of us -I included- have become victims of Trump mania -
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There are all kinds of tactical or political reasons why Trump might attack McCain, as well as envy and resentment.
What makes this pathological is the obsessive repetition of the attacks, the inability to let go, even when it is apparent that the attacks are hurting Trump among many constituents who might otherwise be inclined to support him. Such as military people and those who regard McCain as a heroic or admirable figure.
This is akin to Trump's tendency to lie even at times when it might be easier or more effective to tell the truth. To some extent that has the effect of making Trump's "base" complicit in his distortion of reality, since they support him or remain silent even when they know he is lying. For them, Trump becomes the arbiter of all things, a kind of political bible that provides followers with the ultimate Truth even when it contradicts known facts.
Whether or not this is mental imbalance, it is certainly politically pathological. It is, in fact, one of the elements of incipient fascism, even though the political climate n the U.S. is not (or not yet) conducive to a full-fledged fascist movement. It would be a grave error for Democratic or Republican leaders to think of Trump as just another conservative or right-winger. He has shown himself to represent something more dangerous than that.
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Agreed. The best description of Trump is "malignant narcissist."
As the adopted child of a woman with the same mental illness, I extend my sympathy to any who must trust or be obliged to support Trump.
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@David Friedman
trump as a bible for those that prefer the magic of lies over the science of truth. Excellent!
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Trump keeps attacking the late senator John McCain for several reasons the most recent being the indirect support of McCain to finance the Steele dossier to dig dirt on Trump. The second most important reason is McCain maliciously and single handedly turned the tide against repeal and replace. Finally, Trump is well aware that without John McCains' support the regime change wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria will never have received the thumbs up and now Trump has inherited those wars and 20 trillion dollar debt.
Having said that, we get it that there is no need to keep beating on dead McCain and the dislike was mutual but it must bother Trump that he could not keep his promise replace to replace Obamacare and that it seems to be there through out his presidency and anything Trump will not result in repeal and replace Obamacare for the rest of his first term.
I do not buy that the thrashing of the late senator McCain is envy or mental imbalance, it is typical Trump's response to not spare anyone who crossed him and McCain certainly did that in a big way in depriving the president a major legislative victory that will hurt while campaigning for reelection and also gave the democrats a political victory in the mid term elections. Healthcare is still a big issue and while pushing for medicare for all is admitting that Obamacare is not without serious problems, it is something that at least got passed and all attempts by GOP to replace Obamacare have failed.
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@Girish Kotwal You are rewriting history. McCain was one of three SEnators to vote against the obamacare repeal. He didn't do it singlehandedly. Remember Murkowski and Susan Collins also voted against the repeal and I don't see Trump mentioning them.
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@Bj, additional points include that McCain had indicated his concerns about the "repeal and replace" process and had NOT indicated his intent to vote for it (just the opposite).
Also, the Republicans had years to prepare their bill for when they not only controlled Congress but the White House but had nothing to present as their repeal and replace package after all those years. If they were serious, they would have had that bill written and in line for passage the day after Trump was inaugurated. It's not on McCain that one vote made a difference. A good plan would have had support.
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@Bj from Washington DC and Carol D from Oregon. I am well aware that the entire senators from the democratic party voted against the repeal and replace of Obamacare and then senators Murkowski and Susan Collins voted along with the democrats and it was equal for and against. McCain walks in dramatically watched by the entire nation as the final deciding vote and gives the bill a thumbs down end of story. What irked Trump was that McCain had all the time talked about how horrible Obamacare was and at the 11th hour when his vote was going to make a huge difference he voted against repeal and replace. It was obvious to any independent observer that McCain just gave an excuse to vote against repeal and replace that the process was not followed when he was away when the process was unfolding.
I believe knowing the history between Trump and McCain that McCvain's vote at a critical time was without malice. In fact it was 100% the defining moment and culmination of why he did what he did which was a shot at Trump. By doing that McCain left the health care issue on the table for the 2020 election. The fact that Bill Clinton called Obamacare the worst system in the world and a large number of Democrats now calling for Medicare for all is acceptance that Obamacare is suboptimal healthcare and health care remains a lightening rod and only real issue that gives the democrats an edge.
Trump persistently attacking McCain is possibly strategic to lay the blame on him as a run up to 2020.
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There is a paradox in Trump's vilification of McCain that I find puzzling. It doesn't concern Trump; it concerns the audiences at his rallies and photo ops.
Why is it that Trump's base, a self-identified fervently patriotic audience, does not reject the draft-dodging president's abasement of a real war hero, a POW, and boo Trump off the stage?
Their silence in the face of Trump's vile words begs the questions, Are they really patriots; is the flag waving just theater; what is patriotism?
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equally paradoxical is the evangelical support for trump / those who identified with 'family values' and used it as a political weapon now disregard it / never mind doesn't matter
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@Taz you nailed it. It’s just theatre. They’re entertained, that’s all they care about.
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@Taz I long ago decided that RWNJ's hate just about everything about American life besides the 2nd amendment. They would be quite happy in a totalitarian society where their own and everyone else's freedoms were seriously curtailed.
There were times in his career that John McCain's "Maverick" tendencies could be intensely aggravating.
Nevertheless he was always a hero for how he endured as a POW from his Viet Nam service, and the way he recovered from his cruel treatment in captivity to serve his country as a Congressman and as a Senator.
He was not a perfect man, but he was always a Patriot and late in career a wiser statesman who learned from his mistakes.
President Trump's treatment of the service of John McCain is one more nail in the coffin of Ignominy which will end his presidency.
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"Readers suggest envy or mental imbalance."
I respectfully differ. It is all about 2020 presidential election and has nothing to do with envy or mental imbalance. In connection to that election, among others, two issues have been on Mr. Trump's mind:
1. Mr. Trump has been repeatedly told that the loss of House in 2018 election was not because the voters were assessing his presidency, but because of "healthcare". He is now convinced himself that healthcare was the issue that motivated some voters, who voted Republican in 2016, to vote for Democrats.
2. As he has indicated in his recent speeches, he wants to have "Promises Made, Promises Kept" to be a major theme of his re-election campaign. Again, he is unable to make such a declaration with straight face because of his broken promise regarding the healthcare.
So, as a preparation for the 2020 election, he is trying to distance himself from the issue of healthcare. He is signaling to his base that the failure to "fix" the healthcare was a Republicans' failure not his. And, to keep the Republicans still on his side, at the same time he is offering them a escape-goat: late Sen. McCain.
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I am still trying to figure out what accomplishments he is always bragging about?
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@Eddie B.
Yet Trump has absolutely no problem at all with telling blatant lies with a straight face.
All he has to do is say he has "fixed healthcare" and his "followers" will accept it as true........
@Eddie B.
Not sure why you’re not considering it’s both.
His calculations on healthcare could very well be symptomatic of delusion...
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As a non-American, I was really heartened to see Republican senators finally speaking out about this travesty. Trump's continued attacks against John McCain are meant to erode the dignity of the armed services and the people in them.
It's been clear that Donald Trump favours the military for the medals and fighter jets, not for the people who wear the uniform and stand the watch. He doesn't seem to have an idea of what duty and honour mean.
The problem is that Donald Trump's word is America's word, and America doesn't have any soft power left. People ignore Mike Pence and laugh in Trump's face. America doesn't have enough social credit left to push policies on things like Huawei's 5G expansion or to influence the Lima Group. When Trump acts like this it's just whittling away at that tiny sliver of influence the US still has left, and it's so needless.
John McCain is a former US Presidential candidate, a veteran, a long-time senator who died in office, a war hero, and an American of good standing. If he cannot be honoured by a sitting President, no one can. Republicans who haven't spoken up should. Everyone is listening to your silence.
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I think it's both mental illness and envy. There's little doubt that while Trump was finding ways to stay stateside during the Vietnam War so he could spend his daddy's money, McCain was flying missions. Trump tries to convince his flock that he's some kind of macho self-made billionaire but consistently wages an internal battle within himself because he knows the truth and is trying so desperately hard to convey otherwise - even to himself.
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@David One of the most exciting moments for Trump over the last two years was when like a two year old he got to sit in the seat of that big red fire truck, in comparison John McCain got to fly a jet plane in combat. Trump understands that he has been outclassed by McCain in this and most every other way.
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@David: I heard a doctor say the other day that bone spurs don't 'go away'. Trump says he can't remember which foot his bone spur was on, but if he had it then he should have it now. There were no bone spurs. Ever. Just an excuse he and his daddy cooked up and paid off a doctor to say.
When he went to Hanoi for is ridiculous second meeting with Kim he stayed right across the street from the Hanoi Hilton which is now a museum. He could have seen where McCain was tortured for five and a half years and refused to leave without the other prisoners leaving with him.
Trump is sub-human in my mind.
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The renaming of the Russell Senate Office Building as The McCain Senate office building is the bi-partisan best idea -- of this century.
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Get it done, Senator Schumer!
Few words to describe this so called President with 5 deferments from Vietnam for “bone spurs.”
Show us the X-rays of your feet, Mr President!
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@JFK If memory serves correctly, four were student deferments and the fifth was a medical deferment.
@JFK
...and tax returns.
@JFK along with your tax returns
Renaming the Senate Office Building will not muffle Trump. There is only one way to end his ranting and raving. Remove him from office by declaring him unfit for the position for reasons of insanity.
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Feud: To quarrel, fight, argue- bicker.
This cannot happen when one is deceased. Let's just call it what it is; an unhinged attack by an unhinged individual playing the role of president.
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@Candlewick
"This cannot happen when one is deceased. "
Can we safely assume that Trump has not progressed to the point where he no longer understands what it means to be deceased?
...Andrew
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@Candlewick
It would be better to say "appearing as president and sleeping in the WH" than "playing the role of president". If his life depends on it that liar-in-chief won't know what the role of a president is.
My husband was career Navy, my son is an active duty Marine serving abroad. I called my republican congressman this morning asking that he find his voice and encourage his fellow silent republicans to stand and defend Mc Cain’s honor. I find this the lowest, most disgusting, most pathetic time since Trump took office. My heart breaks for Senator McCains family and any service member or their family who has sacrificed for this country. Why would anyone want to serve and sacrifice when their life’s work and honor can be bashed nationally by a president who did everything he could to avoid military service to our country.
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@J
You should encourage your congressman to do even more. Trump is causing so much damage because too many Republicans are doing nothing to oppose him.
Honoring Sen. McCain is fine and noble, but Trump is doing too much much real to this nation.
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@J
your republican congressman will do little more than squirm and remain silent, as will his fellow republicans
@J, thanks to families such as yours we have patriots among us that serve and protect our country.
#45 could not shine your husband's or son's boots...
I cannot understand how any US veteran or current member of the US armed forces can support Donald Trump who is clearly anti-American and has absolutely no respect for the men and women who have served this country honorably.
I can only believe that those who support and defend trump do so because they are more dedicated to the white supremacy ideology than to American values.
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@sarah I think your statements are untrue. Yes he does not take a salary, but that is typical of most Presidents in recent times. SOme of Trump's "donations to veterans" were made only after investigative reporting revealed that he failed to make actual donation he said he would make. This president cares only about himself so any action he takes that may seem to benefit others has an ulterior motive - trying to help him get re-elected. he cares for no one but himself and his immediate family. He did not seek this job to help the country or its citizens. Gosh. He won't read a briefing paper about major complex issues facing our nation. He is a "celebrity president" and that sums it up.
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Actually Trump is taking the salary, and then he donates what he gets to a charity of his choosing. We the taxpayers are helping him write off his donation.
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@sarah
I think your post is misleading.
Trump signed the Choice bill that was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress. He didn’t do it alone. In addition, the Choice Act has several provisions that restrict a veteran’s ability to obtain private healthcare that will be paid for by VA.
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