Trump stands by his response to John McCain’s death. John Sidney McCain III, a noteworthy military officer and American politician, lost his battle to\u2026<\/b>
\nTrump stands by his response to John McCain’s death.
John Sidney McCain III, a noteworthy military officer and American politician, lost his battle to a rare type of brain cancer on August 25 \u2013 just days before his 82nd birthday. While most of the United States has been mourning and grieving the loss of McCain, POTUS Donald Trump has received heavy criticism for his response to the senator\u2019s death.
As Bloomberg reminds us, Trump ordered the White House staff to raise the American flag back to full staff just a day after John passed away. Not only did this order anger a large portion of a Americans, it inspired one of the largest veteran groups in the United States to send Trump a letter and request the flag to remain at half staff until after John\u2019s burial. This is an honor that has been given in the past to other great senators who died while serving in office.
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think I did at all,\u201d Trump responded during the interview.
\u201cI\u2019ve done everything that they requested and no, I don\u2019t think I have at all.\u201d
Trump defended his controversial reaction to the passing of McCain noting that he felt he had done everything that was asked of him.
President Trump denies he missed a chance to unite the country by honoring John McCain https:\/\/t.co\/6YIeFHmLdo
\u2014 Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) August 31,2018
In response to the backlash Trump received, the POTUS did order the flag to return to half staff until McCain\u2019s burial. For Donald, however, the criticism regarding his reaction to John\u2019s death did not stop there. Many Americans were also upset that the POTUS only issued a brief condolence on Twitter hours after McCain passed away.
As those who followed McCain\u2019s politics know, he and Trump clashed on several different policy issues. Even after John\u2019s brain cancer news broke, he and the POTUS continued to go to war over the repeal of Obamacare. Notably, McCain\u2019s vote to block a measure geared toward the repeal of Obamacare was one of the last votes he made as the Arizona senator.
\u201cWe had our disagreements and they were very strong disagreements,\u201d Trump said as he reflected on John\u2019s time in office during the interview. \u201cI disagreed with many of the things that I assume he believed in.\u201d
Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush are expected to speak at a ceremony for John McCain in Washington tomorrow. President Trump, with whom McCain frequently found himself at political odds, was not invited to participate. https:\/\/t.co\/kr0KOsataf
\u2014 NPR (@NPR) August 31,2018
\u201cI think both his (Trump\u2019s) critics and also his supporters made it plain to him that he had made a mistake when the flag was up and down and so forth.\u201d
Carter, however, also noted that he believed Trump later corrected the mistake by returning the flag to half staff.<\/p>\n

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