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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump signs bill named for Sen. McCain, doesn't mention him
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) President Donald Trump on Monday signed a $716 billion defense policy bill named for John McCain but included no mention in his remarks of the Republican senator, who is battling brain cancer at home in Arizona.
Trump and McCain are engaged in a long-running feud that dates to Trumps 2016 presidential run. At campaign rallies, Trump regularly castigates McCain without using his name for casting a dramatic thumbs-down vote that doomed Trumps effort last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which was enacted by President Barack Obama.
Trump said there was no better place than right here at Fort Drum to celebrate passage of the defense bill, which will boost military pay by 2.6 percent, giving service members their largest increase in nine years.
The bill formally the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act but referred to by Trump as simply the National Defense Authorization Act will introduce thousands of new recruits to active duty, reserve and National Guard units and replace aging tanks, planes, ships and helicopters with more advanced and lethal technology, Trump said.
Trump and McCain are engaged in a long-running feud that dates to Trumps 2016 presidential run. At campaign rallies, Trump regularly castigates McCain without using his name for casting a dramatic thumbs-down vote that doomed Trumps effort last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which was enacted by President Barack Obama.
Trump said there was no better place than right here at Fort Drum to celebrate passage of the defense bill, which will boost military pay by 2.6 percent, giving service members their largest increase in nine years.
The bill formally the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act but referred to by Trump as simply the National Defense Authorization Act will introduce thousands of new recruits to active duty, reserve and National Guard units and replace aging tanks, planes, ships and helicopters with more advanced and lethal technology, Trump said.
https://www.apnews.com/20220fd3af594046b3850b238b225b7d/Trump-signs-bill-named-for-Sen.-McCain,-doesn't-mention-him
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Trump signs bill named for Sen. McCain, doesn't mention him (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2018
OP
Petty and despicable - especially since he publicly thanked and praised so many others.
highplainsdem
Aug 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)1. Trump is such a petty little man.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)2. That made me think of this excerpt from "People Will Talk":
kwassa
(23,340 posts)3. Petty is the first word that came to my mind. And vindictive.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)4. I'm quite certain that when the history books are written
McCain is going to look a whole lot better than Trump.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)6. well, anyone will look a whole lot better than Trump.
I was trying to decide if Andrew Johnson was a worse president than Trump. Johnson had a hostile congress against him, though. Johnson was pretty far gone, but Trump is worse. The worst president.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)7. That's true - Trump sets an extremely low bar.
Many historians consider James Buchanan to have been the worst president, but I'll bet his ghost is breathing (or not breathing, being a ghost) a sigh of relief that he will no longer hold that position.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)8. Buchanan is probably rolling over in his grave ...
over losing the title.
highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)5. Petty and despicable - especially since he publicly thanked and praised so many others.
And you KNOW that was deliberate, that he knew people would be waiting for him to talk about John McCain, after he specifically named all those other people.