Showing posts with label TRUMP ON MCCAIN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRUMP ON MCCAIN. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Trump warns McCain after his speech on 'half-baked' American foreign policy

President Donald Trump sits for a radio interview in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington. (Photo: AP| PTI)

President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a warning shot after Republican Senator John McCain questioned "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in America's foreign policy.

Trump said in a radio interview with WMAL in Washington that "people have to be careful because at some point I fight back." The president added "I'm being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won't be pretty."

McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5 years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp and is battling brain cancer, offered a simple response to Trump: "I have faced tougher adversaries."

In Philadelphia last night, the six-term Republican senator from Arizona received an award for a lifetime of service and sacrifice to the country.

In addition to recalling his more than two decades of military service and his imprisonment during the war, McCain took a moment to go a step further than the night's other speakers, who lamented what many described as a fractured political climate.
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