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© Thomson Reuters 2018.Washington lauds McCain as one of America's 'bravest souls;' Trump absent
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Haaa Nemui
Trump didn't attend an event he wasn't welcome at is much more accurate.
Silvafan
@bass4funk
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Who screwed who first?
Silvafan
This situation is a microcosm of Dump's life. Always being excluded from the group because he finds a way to screw people any chance he gets. Then he likes to whine like a child for not be treated fairly because no one believes his lies.
So, his circle is filled with sycophants and other unsavory characters worst than him.
His mother and father really screwed him up during his upbringing!
Haaa Nemui
The use of "Trump wasn't invited" is also intentionally misleading.
These people would not have been "invited". Trump was specifically not welcome. If you wish to complain about misleading... stop doing it.
katsu78
It says a lot that even Trump's most devoted followers here can't envision him showing up to a funeral without being disrespectful and rude.
CrazyJoe
I listened to the words of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and it was embarrassing to listen to their praise for a man they could have been like but fell so far short in a battle that would have cost them nothing but their pathetic political lives.
Jimizo
My point doesn’t change. Funerals are generally serious occasions where the dead person is honoured.
This kind of occasion isn’t suited to his character. He would lower the tone.
talaraedokko
What’s so heart-breaking is the hatred that has developed in US politics over the last decades. It’s not just divisive. No one on either side of the aisle can make a move without hatred spewing. Any move ANYONE makes is either two-faced, insincere, has a lack of conscience, or whatever. May McCain rip with or without Trump’s blessings.
bass4funk
Watched the funeral services, he deserved it, he got his wish. Amazing man, amazing life.One of his closest friend said, he was obsessed about every minor detail of how the funeral should be, especially the music. I really felt bad for Meghan, i really understand the deep, deep pain she’s going through, you will never recover from that kind of loss, but you do learn how to live with it as you move forward. I wish the family nothing but the best the hard part hasn’t even begun yet.
1glenn
The draft dodger, who has gone out of his way to be disrespectful and insulting to veterans, was not invited. Is it any wonder that so many people can't stand him?
Silvafan
Yes, the presidency that is bringing to light all of his incompetence and criminal activities that he has been involved in most of his adult life. All of his criminal activity catching up to him with one decision to run for office. A presidency leading to the conviction and indictment to over 30 associates, and it isn't finished yet.
I wonder how proud his parents will be when his presidency will be considered one of the most corrupt in US history leading to some of their own grandchildren being indicted for a crime and a possible impeachment.
Jimizo
Trump would have just talked about himself.
These kinds of occasions aren’t suitable for him.
katsu78
Any time someone looks up a word in a dictionary to try and win an argument, they either don't speak the language natively or they are wrong.
In any case, it is expected and usual for Presidents to attend a memorial service for American politicians as important as McCain was.
Trump's lack of an invitation in no way absolves him of the fact that it is abnormal for a President to behave so childishly that they wouldn't be invited to a funeral. It is neither inappropriate nor deceptive.
If American Presidents had a long history of being at Osaka Station, and only because of Trump's selfish misbehavior was he asked not to go there, then yes, it would be entirely appropriate.
I appreciate you not calling for me to be shot as a result of this disagreement.
Haaa Nemui
So he hated Trump. Yep we know. A lot of people do. But it's got nothing to do with Trump winning the election when he himself didn't. It's got everything to do with him disliking who Trump is and what he stands for.
Haaa Nemui
And he wasn't... but he was also not "not invited", he just wasn't welcome.
Pukey2
I'll probably get down-voted, but who cares. I actually did not find Meghan very dignified. We, like many many other people, lost our father too, and yet most don't collapse and have a nervous breakdown, especially when our father is elderly and suffering from a long terminal illness. I think her mother acted very dignified and composed, as did the young princes when Princess Diana suddenly died, and they were still children.
And why is the sycophant Pence mentioning the man-child's name. If you go, then just go. His boss wasn't wanted there and we all know there's bad blood, so why make things worse. This so called VP is next in line to the WH - that's the most scary thing. I'd say he's even dangerous than the man-child. Women can say goodbye to owning their own bodies and the gay community will have to take ten steps backward. Political decisions will be made from the pulpit.
To be honest, I preferred the service for Aretha Franklin. People actually celebrated someone's life and had a good time.
quercetum
FWIW the Japanese newspapers don’t have Trump as “absent” but instead used “was not invited” because 欠席 (absent) and 招待されなかった (was not invited) are different and it’d be inaccurate to use 欠席 (absent.)
Uninvited or excluded is closer to reality
lincolnman
Well that's a given. We've seen him during the campaign and at his "lounge act" rallies, Trump lacks a "dignity" gene - never had it, so he gets in front of a crowd and mocks the handicapped, insults Gold Start families, curses in front of 12 year old Boy Scouts. I'd put money Pence, Don Jr and Melania wouldn't want him at their funerals.
You'll notice some posters here are locked into their typical two-dimensional thinking - Sen McCain is all good or all bad. There were some policies I vehemently disagreed with Sen McCain on, a few others I did agree with - but I wore our nation's uniform just like he did, and understand what sacrifices he made. The policy differences I had with him are insignificant to the respect and admiration I have for his service to our country. He is and was a hero, in the best definition of the word. All Americans, regardless of party, should salute and and honor his life.
Illyas
Iraq, Libya, Syria. This guy generated more destruction and evil than any of his good deeds made up for. I'm very happy that the Republican party is moving away from neocons like McCain. Funny to see progressives sing his praises, though. If it wasn't for Trump you'd see similar behavior on their part to when Thatcher died.
CrazyJoe
I think we are burying the final republican politician that actually lived up his oath:
To defend and protect the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.
The 3 repubs that spoke today are doing their best to shred it.
smithinjapan
Trump, the coward, was not welcome. He can sit at home and stew about how the war hero wanted Obama to speak at his funeral, and Trump to stay far away. Trump's approval rating is now at an all-time low, in part because how he's handled this whole thing.
starpunk
You make fun of a quadraleptic journalist, you don't get invited to a funeral for somebody who's widower (Bush 41) is a quadraleptic himself. That widower don't want or need for you to spoil the occasion, sad as it is.
You make fun of an ex-POW, put him and other ex-POW/KIA/MIA and PTSD veterans as 'weak', you don't get invited to a funeral for somebody who is one of these either, do ya? That veteran's widow don't want or need for you to spoil the occasion, sad as it is either.
If you can't behave yourself at an event or party or even play checkers, basketball, poker, euchre, whatever without making a pompous narcisstic boor out of yourself, then you don't get invited to anything because no one wants you around. Trump is a self-centered spoilsport and he just makes everyone around him SICK. So this Labor Day weekend the funerals of John McCain, Aretha Franklin and Neil Simon will go on without him and he can sulk, pout and cry cry, cry cry cry. WAH!
PTownsend
No need for the 'left' to do that when Trump's spent a life self-assassinating his character, which is that of a terminally immature spoiled class brat. Given that many of the youtubes you link to are RT backed and also for-profit, are you getting a cut piomping for them?
katsu78
No. Proficient English speakers know that outside of the classroom, absent simply means "not present". It is not a stretch, it is a perfectly accurate use of English.
Don't @ me or call on people to shoot me.
smithinjapan
bass4funk: "No, Trump’s approval rating as been consistent, didn’t climb and it didn’t fall. Bad news for the left."
Sorry, bud, but it's dropped quite a bit. All-time low. We know you only read "Trump-made" polls, and otherwise say polls Don't matter, but them's the facts.
macv
deserves to be right up there with Kissinger
survivalofthefittest
America is built upon a broad based economy systematically. Without this economic foundation, US won't be like what is today. As a private foreign exchange trader, it's very important for me to follow Merica's micro and especially macroeconomic fundamentals to gauge the health of its economy. Economy is first and foremost the highest priority and the rest like defense, healthcare, education, etc. are in the lower totem pole of order. Economy connects everything to other public/private sectors of the whole country. Trump is providing optimally effective solutions for expansive jobs creation and better prospects for financial security of the Main street.
As for McCain, respect his services but never fancy the old fella. He wasn't a very nice old chap but as a fellow human being... RIP John.
Haaa Nemui
Yes, you can.
Yes, you can.
bass4funk
I can’t speak for anyone here, but I think most people that are critical of McCain are not because he was a bad man, I don’t believe he was as a man, a father, soldier or even politician, but I do think he made a lot of bad political decisions.
Thank you for your services, I respect all men and women that wear the uniform, but that doesn’t mean, a serviceman is immune from criticism.
And I agree with you.
Haaa Nemui
It really wouldn't matter what they posted. Several people on here would find a reason to complain about it.
Blacklabel
He wasn’t absent. Can’t be absent to something you never had any intention of going to in the first place. And to let liberals rejoice, also something that you also were not invited to. Can’t be absent in that case either.
(But as President, which he is, you don’t need to be “invited” anyway)
Gremlin.Gaijin
Safe to say that, if his parents had ‘raised him right’, he would not have become the disgusting creature he is today.
Gremlin.Gaijin
So, what you are saying is that John McCain was a Good man, a Good father, a Good soldier and even a Good politician, but he made a lot of Bad political decisions.
Is my understanding of you said correct?
Gremlin.Gaijin
So, what you are saying is that John McCain was a Good man, a Good father, a Good soldier and even a Good politician, but he made a lot of Bad political decisions.
Is my understanding of what you said correct?
Gremlin.Gaijin
Gremlin.GaijinSep. 5 04:14 pm JST
Bass, your silence if deafening.
I’ll take that as a YES.
bass4funk
Sorry, I’m not going to get on Meghan for how she handled her fathers death. We all handle it differently. for me, some people are odd weird that don’t show emotion in something as tragic as this, but that’s my personal opinion.
Oh, is there a rule where he can’t? He likes the President and wants to mention him. If people don’t want to hear it, they can stick their fingers in their ears and hum.
ROFL...Yeah, but you guys want to get rid of Trump, so if that were to hypothetically happen, the left would probably never win another election for a very long time because Pence is deeply religious and he would continue the Trump policies and even ratcheted up. The evangelicals would come out by the thousands. There is a reason why Pelosi doesn’t talk about impeachment, she knows what would happen if there was a President Pence.
Hogwash, but what that would mean is, an end to late term abortion and No more blackmailing cake artists into baking something and trying to step on their first amendment rights.
Serrano
Haaa -
"It's got everything to do with him disliking who Trump is and what he stands for."
You go ahead and believe what you believe. I'm inclined to agree with Diamond and Silk's opinion rather than McCain's.
Diamond & Silk: Left tries to assassinate Trump's character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsyH7DBW_A
bass4funk
Well, he doesn’t need to go, nothing to gain, nothing to lose.
That would be the left, they always have plenty to say.... and that’s it. Lol
I feel the same about the left. Now I will say this, the left are really doing themselves a disservice into driving themselves into a craze with this nonsense. Both Trump and McCain are very similar, stubborn, won’t let things go, hold grudges, like to be the center of attention, giant egos, the nonsense is who cares? McCain is dead, both men despised each other with a passion until the end and both thought, of one another and felt good riddance.
bass4funk
What? ROFL
But soon and then the Dems will be even more depressed. But they do have tissue for that.
If they were alive, they would probably be laughing at how dumb Mueller and the Dems are.
bass4funk
Maybe they shouldn’t have screwed him first.
Don't blame him, but the problem is, the others blame him when he punches back, now who’s the whiner?
If they did then he wouldn’t have had the life he is living with buildings all over the world, casinos, his very own high rise building, a number one TV show for 14 years and then to the Presidency?
If his parents screwed up then I wonder what would have become of him if raised him right?