Now that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is trekking to Capitol Hill Tuesday despite a brain cancer diagnosis, President Donald Trump called him an “American hero” on Tuesday morning.
So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave – American hero! Thank you John.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Trump’s tweet is especially notable given that during the 2016 campaign, Trump questioned whether McCain should be considered a war hero because he was “captured.” During a July 2015 event, Trump said that McCain “is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
After McCain was diagnosed with cancer, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if Trump regrets suggesting that the senator is not a war hero.
“I’m not sure about that,” she replied.
Situational heroes.
Sounds good to me.
Everybody is eager to see McCain not be a Maverick again. (It always was an invention of his ghostwriter.)
Go to war on behalf of your country, spend years being tortured as a POW, and you’re not a hero because Trump prefers soldiers who don’t get caught (or, going by his own record, people who don’t serve).
But show up in Congress with brain cancer to cast a vote taking away health insurance for tens of millions of people, and that’s Donald Trump’s definition of “heroic”.
These people are fucking evil.
My, my. Trump just made his 11 year old a subject fit for conversation.