JOHN MCCAIN: [Reporter: “Back in 2015, you said that you didn’t think John McCain was a hero, that you prefer people who don’t get captured. In — in light of all that’s happened since then and all you’ve learned, do you regret saying that? Is that something you wish you had not said?”]
“I — look, I — I say what I say. And I never got along with John McCain. I disagreed with John McCain. You know that better than anybody, frankly. I wasn’t a fan…
I disagreed with John McCain on a lot of things. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect him. I respected him, but I really disagreed with him on a lot of things. And I think I was right; I think time has proven me right, to a large extent.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020