JOHN MCCAIN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Whoever directed the Navy to keep the destroyer USS John McCain out of sight during a presidential visit to Japan was ‘well-meaning,’ President Donald Trump said Thursday [5-30-19]…Trump’s remarks came as acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan denied knowing about the efforts to shield the McCain and its crew from the president’s view and as a prominent retired general and former Clinton Cabinet member called on Shanahan to resign if he knew…Overnight, Shanahan told reporters traveling with him that a Wall Street Journal report describing directions from the White House Military Office to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command ‘was the first time I’ve heard about it.’ He later added that he ‘never authorized … any action around the movement or activity regarding that ship”’ and ‘would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Sen. McCain.’”
–Wesley Morgan, “Trump on moving USS John McCain out of sight: ‘I would never do a thing like that’,” Politico, May 30, 2019 9:27 am