This is a very common attack the Left and their RINO enablers make on our President. While talking with the discredited RINO pollster Frank Luntz, Donald Trump not only claimed that John McCain was not a war hero, but that John McCain got captured and that he preferred soldiers who did not captured. Four years afterward, Trump has been lambasted for this comment over and over and over again.
One thing is for certain: John McCain was a war hero. What he did for his fellow soldiers is nothing short of remarkable and is worthy of the highest praise. Trump was wrong to make that remark. But what gets me about this story is that no one ever seems to care or remember the FULL context of this live interview with Frank Luntz.
Lets take a trip back to 2015. Our president announced his candidacy and knocked the socks off of the political world. Droves and droves of people were coming to attend Trump’s rallies and he was getting an unprecedented level of support; a lot of which just so happened to be out of John McCain’s own state.
So how does John McCain respond to this rise in popularity? Does he congratulate this popular contender for the president of his own political party? Of course not. In reaction to this historic level of support, McCain labels Trump’s supporters as being a bunch of crazies. That’s right; people like you and me who are getting behind a candidate who is talking about closed borders and respect for the rule of law are simply crazies. Now keep in mind that McCain is not just talking about one or two random people. He is talking about thousands of his own constituents; he is talking about thousands of people he was elected to represent in his own state.
Naturally, in typical Trump counter-puncher style, Trump responds to this by calling McCain a dummy. Uncouth? Maybe. Impolite? Without a doubt. But considering that McCain was attacking his very own political base, I frankly could not agree more with the President’s assessment at the time.
As the embedded video below indicates, this ultimately lead to Frank Luntz’s line of questioning that resulted in Trump claiming McCain is not a war hero. If you listen to the initial phase of the exchange however, Frank Luntz is more or less excusing McCain’s attack on thousands of his own supporters simply because the man is a war hero. As Trump points out, what McCain said about this people was reprehensible and was the basis for how he responded to the now deceased Senator. Since this point, for some reason, everyone who talks about this story ignores what McCain said about we the people and simply opts to pounce about what Trump said in response. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done for the country. Wrong is wrong and Trump rightfully smacked McCain over the head for what he said about the people who elected him into office.
Needless to say, as if McCain’s personal grudge against our President couldn’t grow any more detestable, in one final act of defiance, he voted to uphold Obamacare in the Senate despite specifically campaigning to his supporters that he would vote to repeal it upon the first opportunity.
Whatever ounce of heroism the late Senator had died before he rebranded himself as a politician. With regards to John McCain the soldier, I have nothing but the utmost respect. But regards to John McCain the politician, he was a Washington elitist vindictive petty old man who cared more about himself than he did the very people who he swore to represent.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=541Cg2Jnb8s%26ab_channel%3DC-SPAN
One reply on “That time Donald Trump said John McCain was not a hero”
Two things can be true at once. Yes, he’s a war hero, and deserves respect for it. But it doesn’t give him a pass for nastiness or dishonorable or petty behavior.
And the RINOs like Luntz and the media are never, ever going to figure out that there are a lot of people out there who are sick and tired of “nice tone” progressives masquerading as conservatives. At least 72 million of us (Sidney Powell says 80 million).