Trump Resisted Lowering Flag Because He Thought McCain Coverage Was Excessive

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

While he eventually agreed to lower the White House flag in honor of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) passing — after receiving criticism from veterans — President Donald Trump was resistant to the gesture because he thought McCain’s death was getting too much news coverage.

According to people familiar with the situation who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, Trump thought the reporting on McCain’s passing, just one day after his family announced he would stop seeking medical treatment for his brain cancer, was “over-the-top and more befitting a president,” in WSJ’s words.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reportedly played a leading role in convincing the President to agree to lower the flags again and issue a proclamation on McCain’s death.

“It was 99 percent Sarah,” and partially Chief of Staff John Kelly’s influence that got Trump to change his mind, a senior White House official told WSJ.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-thought-mccain-coverage-excessive

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Trump wants to dictate media coverage

He has a real case on himself.

[NewJeffCT]

33. and, on most days, he does dictate

the media coverage.

[ginnyinWI]

39. It's not his flag and it's not his house!

He hasn't got the decency to follow basic rules of protocol on behalf of the nation. And in the end he made McCain look better and himself look worse!

Would his base really think less of him for keeping that flag lowered? I don't think so. It's just his own hurt feelings he wanted to salve.

[Angry Dragon]

2. without Trump very little posts

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Talk about over exposure. I counted 3 seconds yesterday

after I turned on the electronics before i heard his name. Im glad he realizes what over exposure is. He was over exposed by febuary 2017.

[AwakeAtLast]

52. I think you mean February 2007.

At least for my taste.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What a stupid think to think/say

Keep digging, Donald

[riversedge]

31. IT was about himself--his ego. He is worried that his passing, when it happens will not

be gigantic--you know like all those folks at his bigley inauguration ceremony on the Mall.

[Towlie]

42. He SHOULD be worried because he won't be mourned nearly as much as John McCain is being mourned now.

People who didn't like John McCain are saying nice things about him today in respect for the principles of common decency, but I think the best Trump will be able to hope for is to be buried in an unmarked grave so that it won't be desecrated.

[Bengus81]

5. Gawd.....that fucker isn't human

How the HELL does that woman he's married to stand to be within ten feet of that asshole? Can't wait until his fat ass dies so we can all ignore him so it's not "excessive" coverage.

[PatSeg]

20. Oh, I'd rather he live as long as possible

Let him be ignored and reviled while he is still alive. Let him sit alone in front a wall of television sets looking vainly for any mention or image of himself. Of course, that is presuming he isn't in jail.

[rainin]

35. I've decided she can't leave. He could threaten to deport her without her son.

What if all the deportations are how he shows her he can get rid of anyone he wants -- including naturalized citizens.

[spiderpig]

47. I think back to my years of juggling the checkbook to pay the rent

I managed, and have had a long and happy life since.

But I can't imagine ever-ever-ever trading my self-respect for a repulsive so-called billionaire sugar daddy. He is the most vile, disgusting biped on the face of the earth.

Was it worth it, MelaniE?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. He certainly did think it was excessive

[Snellius]

8. Wow. Where did you find that comic? So apropos.

Someone really knows their comics.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. I was looking at a bunch of Kliban cat cartoons and Google inserted it into the flow.

That someone who knows their comics would not be me!

[Snellius]

13. It looks like it was written for the news. Even the face and hair. An oracle?

Kind of spooky. Maybe should read the comic. Maybe it's a prediction of events.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Here's page it came from

https://greatwen.com/2017/01/25/read-or-dredd-2000-ad-at-the-cartoon-museum/

in another, Chief Judge Caligula has taken power, a deranged, rambling permanently enraged narcissist with a huge ego and lustrous hair who insists on building a giant wall around his crumbling empire.

Remind you of anybody?

... and then it shows the panel.

[Snellius]

19. Judge Dredd and company predicted Trump

Judge Dredd and company predicted Trump
http://the-mattzone.blogspot.com/2017/01/judge-dredd-and-company-predicted-trump.html

You may have really hit on something here.

[Mad-in-Mo]

38. Wow and just WOW! How incredibly same.

Thanks very much for sharing.

[Anon-C]

51. ...

[Snellius]

7. Any praise for anyone but himself he considers an insult to him.

How does anyone with so much spite manage to sleep at night. His mind is a boiling cauldron of bile?

[PatSeg]

21. He was Tweeting at 5:24 this morning

I doubt he gets more than two or three hours of sleep a night, which only contributes to his escalating derangement.

[Snellius]

24. Still maintain he's a tweaker. Can go on wired for days without sleep.

If we can only find his dealer, President White Bread will be burnt toast.

[PatSeg]

27. He definitely looks like a tweaker

He could be on some kind of diet drugs again and Dr. Bornstein could be his "dealer". All the Diet Cokes don't help either.

[Snellius]

29. Actually most tweakers don't look like tweakers. Not like the walking dead stereotype.

Many completely normal looking. Normal jobs, family, house, kids. Many you would never guess. It's how they act and think that's the giveaway, esp. lying, malignant narcissism, sex obsessed (esp. porn), sociopathic and conning everyone they meet.

[PatSeg]

30. That certainly sounds like Trump

though nothing about him is normal looking. I don't think he needs drugs to be a lying, malignant narcissist. It is who he's always been. Any drug would only enhance it.

[smb]

41. All that coke washed down with Coke nt

[herding cats]

10. Jealous of a dead man getting attention, spiteful Trump raised the flag.

Which inadvertently led to more attention for the dead man but got Trump in the news cycle again, albeit negatively.

Then this morning Trump googled himself and still not liking what he saw attacked google for the news reporting on the scandals he's involved in and not praising him.

85-90% of Republicans support this man as president.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. +1000

[Yonnie3]

11. The word Trump and the word thought in the same sentence ...

Bull!

Feared, felt, or imagined might be a better description. Spanky 'rump is not capable of rational thought.

[beachbum bob]

12. lol, when its not about trump of course he is going to pull a tantrum

[tanyev]

14. And when he says "more befitting a president" he means "more befitting Donald Trump".

[PatSeg]

25. Exactly

That was what popped in my head. Everything is about Donald all the time.

[90-percent]

46. I hope in the near future

I hope in the near future to witness memorial services "more befitting" for a sitting President.

And lifelong solitary confinement for the extended family.

Same for current Republican leadership.

-90% Jimmy

[rurallib]

15. That is the best they can come up with after 4 days? What horse shit

the flags weren't lowered because Trump hated McCain. That is all.

And that is such a bullshit excuse - from the creative mind of Sean Hannity, maybe?

[Girard442]

17. This is the kind of thinking you'd see where Gramps suddenly decides...

...that's there's really no reason to put on clothes when he walks out to the front of the house to get the paper.

[safeinOhio]

18. trump is a one man band

that can only toot his own horn.

[yallerdawg]

22. Whatever causes blood vessels to burst in his brain...

I am 100% in support of.

Impeachment and imprisonment remains my second most desired outcome. 'Eat mor beef, MoFo!'

Pence remains a crippled, hobbled 'survivable event.'

[marble falls]

23. Since when has cheetolini started being sensitive to the "dignity" of the office of POTUS? ...

I didn't get that memo - did anybody else???

[Paladin]

26. Leading to the delicious spectacle......

....of McCain's former jailor/torturer in Vietnam offering condolences, before trump did.

How small can this man get, before he mercifully disappears?

[duforsure]

28. He hated McCain

Because HE was a war hero for this country and he wasn't, and also because the Steele dossier was given to him . This was all for revenge with anything to hurt him , or his reputation with, and now his legacy. Anyone in the military should realize trump doesn't respect you for what you're doing , no matter what he says and claims. He praises Putin , then trashes an American war hero.

[pazzyanne]

40. Yeah, that Purple Heart he was given doesn't cut the mustard,

but then neither does tRump.

[smb]

43. McCain's Ordeal Reminds People Of Cadet Bone Spurs' Cowardice nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

34. Kelly makes me embarrassed to admit I was a Marine.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. So Sarah's the brightest bulb in the chandelier? Scary!

[AllyCat]

37. Awwww, the spotlight wasn't on widdle twumpy

Whaaaaaa!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

44. Trump thoght coverage was "over-the-top and more befitting a president."

Okay, so go ahead and die and we'll give your death 24 hours a day global coverage for a month! I refuse to piss on his grave, though, as many are wont to do. I hate standing in lines.

Actually, coverage of Donnie Two Scoops' death will be something like, "Donald Trump died in prison today. Now let's look at the weather. What's tomorrow going to be like, Skippy?"

[jcgoldie]

45. Any sane person would have been relieved to have the sunday talking heads redirected

A sane person would have welcomed the respite from talking about their own personal scandals ... Cohen, Manafort, Pecker, etc. But of course Trump is a 2 year old who wants all the attention even if its bad.

[brooklynite]

48. Why not develop a "conservative" search tool?

I'm sure it'll be as successful as "Conservapedia" was.

[Paladin]

49. trump need not worry about excessive action from me when he passes.

One sprinkling of his grave ought to do it for me. Looking forward to it.

[kskiska]

50. Jealous of a dead man.

He wants the spotlight on him alone.

[Judi Lynn]

53. Shabby! So petty. Cheap. He embarrasses us all. n/t