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Why Is Trump So Hung Up On John McCain?
Tells you a lot about this President that he won’t let go at all, or otherwise modify his nasty Tweets and disparaging comments, even with the former Republican Presidential nominee and Senator from Arizona 7 months in the ground.
We think the answer’s pretty simple really. Or rather there are 3 answers, the biggest by far being:
• McCain was respected more than Trump has ever been. Even people who didn’t agree with him politically respected him as a person, and a war hero. Yet he lost when he ran for President. So how can that be? McCain was a “loser” whom everyone loved, and Trump is a winner, yet half the country dislikes him? That just doesn’t mesh in the President’s head. It’s just unfair. Because no one deserves more respect than Trump.
In fact, if you look at the now-infamous pre-election clip where Trump says McCain was a war hero only “because he was captured”, adding “I like people who weren’t captured, OK?”, which we’ve put a link to here, Trump says something else immediately before, which is perhaps even more telling, yet no one really talks about it. He says:
“I raised a million dollars for him. It’s a lot of money. I supported him. He…
