Media keeps quiet on special acts of kindness Trump took for McCain family

Donald Trump (L); John McCain (R)

Some took the opportunity to take shots at President Donald Trump while at the funeral for Sen. John McCain. Those taking shots included the Senator's daughter, Meghan McCain and Barack Obama. But while they were bashing Trump and he was not invited to the funeral, no one was mentioning an important act of kindness Trump made to the McCain family.

John McCain died in Arizona and was lying in state at the Arizona Capitol. But they needed to get his body to Washington, D.C. for the memorial service and burial there.

At the behest of Trump, McCain's body was flown on Air Force 2, according to TMZ, the plane generally used by the Vice President or the First Lady. AZ Central confirmed that McCain's body flew out on Air Force 2.

As TMZ notes, Trump also approved other military support and honors for McCain:

Still, Trump announced earlier this week he had greenlit military transport for McCain, saying, "At the request of the McCain family, I have also authorized military transportation of Senator McCain's remains from Arizona to Washington, D.C., military pallbearers and band support, and a horse and caisson transport during the service at the United States Naval Academy."

This despite the frequently fractious relationship between the two.

Yes, Trump made what many remember as a nasty remark about not liking McCain because he had been captured, something media is at no loss to repeat, and after McCain attacked him.

What media often leaves out in the account of the relationship is that McCain had a hand in passing the dossier on to the FBI and in trying to stoke the collusion illusion against Trump. Given how much Trump has been attacked as a result of that and how much the resulting chaos has hurt the country, perhaps it's not hard to understand Trump's reticence.

But despite that, he still extended himself on behalf of the family to make sure that McCain's body would get to Washington and be honored.

And he got bashed incessantly anyway by both Meghan McCain as well as Barack Obama.

And media had a field day saying that Trump was rebuked by folks at the funeral.

But maybe his silent acts say a lot more than the bashing does.

Reader Comments

GregH335 · 2018-09-03T12:02:15Z

Main Stream Media in these United States serve no useful purpose. The only goal media has is to increase the violence and support the ignorance of the democratic liberals. Journalism in the US is non-existent. They all have become gossip columnists. Main Stream Media - CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS and many more have become disgusting and operate sans ethics.

GregH335 · 2018-09-03T12:58:05Z

Megan McCain is a bitch... she's as bad as her asshole father.

Patrick2017 · 2018-09-03T13:00:55Z

I think I would have sent a FedX truck to pick up McStains body with two day shipping from Amazon.

GregH335 · 2018-09-03T13:06:54Z

Patrick2017 Great idea... and with my experience of FED EX.... they would lose the rancid body somewhere along the way. LOL

system · 2018-09-03T13:17:31Z

I think it's despicable that Gearge W. Bush, Barack Obama, and others would use a man's funeral as a political platform to push a midterm political agenda. With the single minded goal to impeach Trump, and put the globalist agenda back on track that was paused when the people voted in their potus.

'W' has a lot of nerve, and liberal support, back slaps to accuse Trump of being some sort of despot, when he is a war criminal at large, and a treasonous bastard that we have to thank for this endless war on terror, and loss of liberty. I find it disgusting that he is so celebrated in the liberal community, and press, like he is some sort of national treasure.

GregH335 · 2018-09-03T16:16:11Z

strategery Liberals support killing babies, illegal immigrants, making the states a Godless country, keeping welfare recipients dependent upon tax payer money, keeping inner cities violent and protecting criminals at the expense of victims. So for liberals to know hail George W is not a far stretch. Liberals have no ethics nor code of decency. Liberals are the most hypocritical of all creatures.