McCain doesn't want Trump at his funeral

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been in the battle of his life. He has glioblastoma,  an aggressive form of brain cancer  and was recently hospitalized for diverticulitis in his intestines.

McCain asked former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama to deliver eulogies at his funeral sources close to the former presidents told CNN, so you can take that with a grain of salt until we know of the veracity of the report. 

McCain does not want President Trump to attend and prefers Vice President Pence to be there, according to The New York Times. 

"I don't know how much longer I'll be here," the former Navy A4 Skyhawk pilot and Vietnam POW said in an audio excerpt of his soon to be published memoir, "The Restless Wave, NPR reported. He is also the subject of an HBO documentary.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was at McCain's Arizona ranch last Sunday.

"Here John knows he's in a very, very, very precarious situation, and yet he's still concerned about the state of the country," Biden told The Times, using a sentence intensifier three times in Trump-like fashion. "We talked about how our international reputation is being damaged and we talked about the need for people to stand up and speak out."

As if nobody in entertainment or the media aren't speaking out, Joe? All they do is speak out against Trump. 

According to The Times, McCain's closest family members have told the White House they currently plan to have Pence attend the service to be held in Washington's National Cathedral, but not Trump. 

McCain and Trump don't have the closest relationship after Trump said in July 2015 about McCain's being captured and made a prisoner of war in Vietnam that he likes people who weren't captured. He told the Iowa audience: "He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

And when McCain cast the crucial vote against the repeal of ObamaCare in July, he was the guy who canned one of Trump's major policy goals. It pissed off Trump and earned McCain an "attaboy" from Obama.

McCain said of Trump in his book:

"He seems uninterested in the moral character of world leaders and their regimes. The appearance of toughness or a reality show facsimile of toughness seems to matter more than any of our values. Flattery secures his friendship, criticism his enmity."

Whatever you think of John McCain, he definitely was a war hero. What he did by remaining behind with his men, when he could have been released, was heroic, and anyone with a conspiracy theory about what "really" happened in the POW camp, wasn't there and don't know what they're talking about.

And you don't need to like his politics and his RINO ways to call him a war hero. Political differences should not cause hate.


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