Seven months after the death of Republican Senator John McCain, his funeral with US President Donald Trump causes displeasure. At a military rally in Lima, Ohio, he said in public that he had given McCain „the funeral he wanted, but I did not receive a thank you.“ During his lifetime, McCain forbade Trump to come to his funeral.
Trump accused the late 2008 Republican presidential candidate of being „guilty of McCain’s war in the Middle East.“ „McCain did not do the work for our great veterans,“ said the US President at the event. Although McCain died, that does not change the relationship between the two. „I have to be honest: I never really liked him,“ Trump said. „He was not for me. He probably will never be. “
„Likes people who were not captured“
Trump’s hostility towards McCain goes back to the 2016 election campaign. Trump, who was never in the military, unlike McCain, said of his Republican counterpart McCain was not a war hero. „I like people who have not been captured,“ said the US president. McCain was imprisoned during the Vietnam War.
In his last years, McCain had made a respectful political debate to the life task despite equal party affiliation as Trump. McCain openly spoke out against Trump as president. Due to numerous allegations against Trump in terms of harassment of women and tax evasion McCain Trump described as „disgusting“, among others.
