After Aide’s Morbid Joke, Trump Leads Nashville Crowd In Booing John McCain

NASHVILLE, TN - MAY 29: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, May 29, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier in the day, President Trump held a fundraising event in s... NASHVILLE, TN - MAY 29: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, May 29, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier in the day, President Trump held a fundraising event in support of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who is running for a U.S. Senate seat against former two-term Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat. They are competing for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who declined to run for a third term. Recent polling indicates a close race between Blackburn and Bredesen. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump led the crowd at a campaign-style rally in Nashville on Tuesday in booing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as Trump, again, attacked the senior senator for his “no” vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare last year.

“We had it done, folks, it was done, and then early in the morning somebody turned their hand in the wrong direction,” Trump said, referencing McCain without using his name. “The person that voted that way only talked repeal and replace. He campaigned on it.

The jabs on Tuesday evening were the first time Trump has spoken publicly about McCain since it was reported that one of Trump’s communications aides made a morbid joke about McCain “dying” during an internal White House meeting. McCain was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer last year and has been in Arizona recovering from treatment in recent weeks.

Rather than apologize for the remark or discipline the staffer, Kelly Sadler, the White House has used the incident to crack down on leaks by decreasing the number of people invited to participate in daily communications briefings and reportedly making plans to downsize the communications department.

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  1. So I guess Meghan is going to pout on “The View” again, sticking up for Daddy while sucking off Trump and the GOP at the same time. Quite a trick. Surprised she didn’t win a slot on “America’s Got Talent”.

  2. What a disgusting POS.

  3. I wonder if McCain now regrets voting for tRump’s tax cut. Too bad he can’t go back and kill that too.

  4. So I guess donnie is jealous of McCain’s HBO doc. I’d say he was also jealous of McCain’s new book, but since he doesn’t read, that couldn’t be the case.

  5. You need to stop covering stuff like this. People who hate Trump already know he is a piece of garbage. Those who adore him are not changing their minds. So, all you are doing is giving Trump more attention, which is what he craves.

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