https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-event-trump-silent-dying-mccain-n903796

President Donald Trump ignored Sen. John McCain during his only public remarks Friday, declining to say anything about the former prisoner of war and 35-year veteran of Congress who has decided to end his treatment for terminal brain cancer.

At a fundraising dinner for the Ohio Republican Party in Columbus Friday night, Trump reiterated the staples of his stump speech, touting his economic record, railing against illegal immigration and insulting a series of prominent Democrats.

The president even gave shout-outs to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West. But he said nothing about the Arizona Republican.

Trump's silence about his fellow Republican — a frequent critic who the president often mocks at his campaign rallies — stood in jarring contrast to a bipartisan national outpouring of esteem Friday afternoon for McCain, who endured torture after his Navy plane was shot down in Vietnam and who launched a political career that saw him rise to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, after his family announced he had opted to stop being treated for cancer.