Statement of the President on the Death of Senator John McCain

[Silver Pines]

Trump's statements, tweets and speeches are always presidential when he doesn't write them.  I really wish he would leave those matters to his staff more often. 

By the way, I applaud Trump's restraint with regard to McCain.  While a number of people are whining that he didn't say nice things about the senator, I really think this and the earlier tweet sounded a helluva lot better than all the insincere,  flowery BS thrown around by so many others.  Everyone knows Trump and McCain did not get along.  A lot of insincere praise would have been hollow and for me, downright nauseating.  Bravo to Trump or doing the right thing.

@Applewood

From what I’ve read, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders was responsible for him caving.  He insisted that people knew he didn’t like McCain and wouldn’t believe any statement. 

It’s amazing the way he takes these stubborn stances and has to be shamed into doing the correct thing, when he could just do it and avoid the damage/blowback.

[Emjay]

Well tempered statement.  Obviously Trump didn't write it.

No, Abraham Lincoln wrote it.

[Emjay]

Trump's statements, tweets and speeches are always presidential when he doesn't write them.  I really wish he would leave those matters to his staff more often. 

By the way, I applaud Trump's restraint with regard to McCain.  While a number of people are whining that he didn't say nice things about the senator, I really think this and the earlier tweet sounded a helluva lot better than all the insincere,  flowery BS thrown around by so many others.  Everyone knows Trump and McCain did not get along.  A lot of insincere praise would have been hollow and for me, downright nauseating.  Bravo to Trump or doing the right thing.

Totally agree.  It would have been ridiculous for Trump to throw out a bunch of phony praise about a man he detested ... with good reason.

[LegalAmerican]

https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1034169617541943296

McCain planned his own royal funeral and said he did not want President Trump at his funeral. Who is the prk?

 NOT MY PRESIDENT.

[LegalAmerican]

Interesting, I have the opposite view. Trump is being too kind.

mccain was not a great man. He did not do great things when he had the opportunity. I think it's hypocritical to pretend he was a good and great man. He sold out conservatives at every opportunity.

Excellent!.  I love real truth. Not P.c. baloney, which is destroying our country. We have to pretend good things about a vile, foul, person? 
Plenty of facts to back that up.

[dfwgator]

@Applewood
 
It’s amazing the way he takes these stubborn stances and has to be shamed into doing the correct thing, when he could just do it and avoid the damage/blowback.

As a Trump supporter, that's the thing I've found most frustrating about him.

[LegalAmerican]

As a Trump supporter, that's the thing I've found most frustrating about him.

Do any of you think, maybe, that media is lying about what President Trump did or didn't do?  I suggest, stop listening to media.  Media and the left have NOT stopped their lying and hammering president Trump, even for things he did not do.  (picture of illegals from 2014, under Obama) Come on people.
We have to be smarter then the enemy. Stop listening to left, media. That is what is frustrating. Not my president TRUMP.

I can see through all the lies, started May 2015, for over two years, daily 24/7..and some of you believe that baloney.

93 % negative media daily. Nothing they say is any truth. Know that, then no frustration.

Right in Virginia; below comment.

After rereading this, it seems the President had to wait for the funeral arrangements to be finalized before he could put out this statement.  Which is fair and balanced ... doesn't point fingers, simply states a respect for McCain's service and the accommodations the Trump administration is making at the request of the family.

Perfect pitch.