Trump Hates McCain More Than He Loves America

For once in his life, President Trump told the truth.

He told the world how much he hates John McCain, a man who died in August.

After writing a series of tweets attacking the late Senator and GOP presidential candidate over the weekend, Trump was asked to explain himself at the White House. Sitting alongside newly elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Trump said, "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.”

And in telling the truth, President Trump has made it clear that he hates John McCain more than he loves America.

The fact that Trump hates McCain as much in death as he did when he was alive is quite telling. What can McCain do to Trump from beyond the grave? Yet Trump wastes no time in spitting on McCain's grave again and again. What kind of man does such a thing? Then again is such a person fit to be called a man?

As I have argued previously, conservatism died in the summer of 2015 when the Republican Party let Trump get away with saying McCain wasn't a hero. That was the summer conservatives decided to put Trump ahead of country. A pathological hatred of an American hero is one of the darkest legacies of Trumpism.