Trump Jokes That Sanders Had ‘Nervous Breakdown’ Over His McCain Comments

during a summit working session the G7 Summit on June 9, 2018 in Quebec City, Canada. Canada are hosting the leaders of the UK, Italy, the US, France, Germany and Japan for the two day summit, in the town of La Malbaie.
QUEBEC CITY, QC - JUNE 09: US President Donald Trump leaves the main building alongside White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during the G7 Summit on June 9, 2018 in Quebec City, Canada. Canada are host... QUEBEC CITY, QC - JUNE 09: US President Donald Trump leaves the main building alongside White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during the G7 Summit on June 9, 2018 in Quebec City, Canada. Canada are hosting the leaders of the UK, Italy, the US, France, Germany and Japan for the two day summit, in the town of La Malbaie. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump joked that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was “having a nervous breakdown” as she stared daggers at him when he refused to answer a reporter’s question about if the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have been a better President than Barack Obama.

According to a Thursday Bloomberg report, he said: “I don’t want to comment on it. I have a very strong opinion, all right,” teasing “maybe I’ll give you that answer some day later.”

Trump also pushed back against the notion that he had dishonored McCain with his controversial decisions to quickly restore the White House flags to full staff, to initially decline to sign a proclamation honoring McCain’s life and to reject a meaty statement written by his staffers in favor of a bare bones sympathy tweet immediately after McCain’s death.

“No, I don’t think I did at all,” he told Bloomberg. “I’ve done everything that they requested and no, I don’t think I have at all.”

“We had our disagreements and they were very strong disagreements. I disagreed with many of the things that I assume he believed in,” he added. “I respect his service to the country.”

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  1. Totally worth it to represent this douchebag, amiright Sarah?

  2. Avatar for eglot eglot says:

    It has to gnaw at his soul the way people are fawning over McCain… especially the fact that he’s been completely shut out from all the memorials for him.

  3. His funeral will be a “family affair”, assuming that any of them are out of jail by then. However, the crowds lining up to piss on his grave will be yuge.

  4. Today on Fox and Friends

    President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

    ETA - I was joking. I have no idea whether Fox and Friends will cover the poll results from the failing Washington Post and the collapsing ABC News - or is it the collapsing Washington Post and the failing ABC News?

  5. How long before Trumps starts referring to her as “Fat Sarah” ? This woman deserves whatever happens to her, including plague and boils. She is the most despicable figure in Americas politics ever, worse than Trump himself.

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