Trump Allies Urge Counterattack After McCain Funeral

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump’s allies went on the counterattack Saturday after tributes to the late Sen. John McCain took pointed aim at the president.

As Washington mourned McCain, Trump’s people grew angry. Some even hoped for — but didn’t get — a blistering tweet from the president. And they privately chastised Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, for attending the senator’s memorial service.

“@realDonaldTrump ran for @POTUS ONE time and WON,” tweeted Katrina Pierson, an adviser to Trump’s campaign. “Some people will never recover from that.”

McCain’s service was, on one level, a return to old Washington civility, with Republicans and Democrats, past presidents, friends and foes gathered in unity. But as its tributes echoed with overt criticism of the president, it only deepened the hostility between the city’s establishment and the outsider in the White House.

Early Saturday morning, mourners were preparing to gather at Washington National Cathedral for the solemn event. But for Trump, at the White House just a few miles away, the day began like any other. He started tweeting just before 7:30 a.m. with a shot at the “tainted and corrupt” news media and a gripe about Canada, the country’s biggest trading partner.


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/01/trump-mccain-memorial-response-reaction-806113

[Iliyah]

1. That is mob mentality

Seriously, how old are these people.

[vlyons]

2. more and more these days, my emotional response to Trumpsters is --

who cares what stupid mean-spirited crap you think? Not me! That's right, we repudiate your vile and vulgar anti-hero and that is what's so. Not so obviously to you, it's also SO WHAT? Go eat a bug!

[Grassy Knoll]

3. Barack Obama ran for @POTUS ONE time and WON,"...

...“Some people will never recover from that.”
Get Real Freak Show!!

[RockRaven]

4. "Counterattack" who exactly?

The dead man? That's literally screaming into the wind.

His family? Which ones exactly: the 106 yr old mother, the widow, the daughter who is the token conservative on a librul daytime talk show, the son who is active duty Navy, or the ones nobody has ever heard of?

None of those options are going to get any traction. Even those deplorables who aren't offended would be at minimum bored.

[onecaliberal]

5. Idgaf what people like that vile woman think.

[Ilsa]

6. And that's exactly what their problem is, and why they are "deplorable."

No criticism of Herr Leader can be permitted. They must respond tit-for-tat. They don't know when to shut up and stay quiet. They have a constant need to bully everyone into taking their side.

[Grammy23]

7. Now that all the ceremonies are over,

is it too much to ask to let the family go home and grieve in private and let the man Rest In Peace? Or is that too much for their withered souls?

I don’t believe in heaven or hell but if it turns out I was wrong and there are such places, I will be quite tickled to learn that there is a special place in the deepest, darkest bowels of hell reserved for tRump and all who served him. Make it extra hot, too.

[trueblue2007]

8. i wish he would tweet horrible stuff. GOPs would rail against trump and maybe he would go down.

maybe he would lose everything finally and resign.

[Turbineguy]

9. That's a fantastic idea!

They can make speeches at trump's funeral!

[lpbk2713]

10. Sad.

What kind of a mind thinks in that direction?