Thread: Lindsey Graham: Trump disparaging John McCain 'pisses me off to no end'

Lindsey Graham: Trump disparaging John McCain 'pisses me off to no end'

Erin Kelly, USA TODAY Published 2:19 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2018 | Updated 7:42 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2018

Sen. Lindsey Graham honored the life of the late Sen. John McCain on the Senate floor on Tuesday. McCain died at 81 on Saturday after a year-long battle with brain cancer. (Aug. 2 AP

WASHINGTON – John McCain's best friend in the Senate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Thursday that President Donald Trump's negative remarks about McCain "pisses me off to no end."

"It bothers me greatly when the president says things about John McCain. It pisses me off to no end, and I let the president know it," the Republican said on CBS This Morning.

Trump frequently criticized McCain, even questioning whether the decorated Navy pilot was really a war hero since he was captured by the North Vietnamese when his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War. McCain spent more than five years as a POW in Hanoi.

"He’s not a war hero," Trump said in July 2015. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured."

As president, Trump repeatedly attacked McCain for the senator's decisive 2017 vote against repealing Obamacare. Trump repeated that criticism at campaign rallies even after McCain was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The senator's daughter, Meghan McCain, called Trump's behavior "gross" in June.

Graham also said Thursday that he found Trump's handling of McCain's death "disturbing." The president initially ignored tradition by refusing to immediately put out a proclamation honoring McCain, who died last Saturday of brain cancer.

The White House also raised its flags from half-staff to full-staff on Monday until heavy criticism from veterans groups pressured them to lower the flags again. The flags are now scheduled to remain lowered until after McCain is buried Sunday at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

"The way he's handled the passing of John is just, was disturbing," Graham said about Trump on CBS. "We finally got it right. … I am not going to give up on the idea of working with this president. The best way I can honor John McCain is help my country."

Graham said he didn't call the president about bringing the flag back down to half-staff but "I called some people around him."

Asked what Trump could learn from McCain, Graham said, "What I would tell the president: you've got a lot of people you think are treating you unfairly. Fight back."

"But you're going to have to be a big man in a big office," Graham said. "John McCain was a big man, worthy of a big country. Mr. President, you need to be the big man that the presidency requires."

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LOL!! Lindsey, you just lost your welcome mat to the White House!!

Originally Posted by Judy

LOL!! Lindsey, you just lost your welcome mat to the White House!!

I seriously doubt it. Trump needs Graham on his side to reduce the negative impact of getting rid of Jeff Sessions.

McCain said a lot of things about Trump and put up road blocks to getting things done that pisses ME off to no end!!!

It is ok for them to sling out the insults to Trump and his family but not ok to sling them back? LOL

McCain should have stepped down a year ago when he knew he was terminally ill. He held on because he was a bitter old man with an agenda against Trump. He was the leaker! He was not even there to do his job this last year.

They deliberately played up this funeral, who else got a week of funeral coverage and all over the media?

We need Term Limits.

They ALL attacked Trump when he announced he was running for President, they attacked his whole family!!!

They still ATTACK Trump!

Graham is a spineless cry baby that needs to be voted out!