JOHN MCCAIN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is an obsession he cannot seem to shake. Senator John McCain of Arizona has been dead for seven months, but President Trump’s feud with him is very much alive, and in front of a military audience at a tank plant here in Lima, Ohio, on Wednesday [3-20-19], he took it to a new level. He said he gave Mr. McCain ‘the funeral he wanted, and I didn’t get ‘thank you,’’ exaggerating the role he played in honoring the senator’s death four days before his 82nd birthday…The long, antagonistic history between the president and Mr. McCain, in his youth a Navy pilot and prisoner of war celebrated for his bravery and later known as a maverick in the Republican Party, dates to the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump, who never served in the military, said Mr. McCain was not a war hero, adding, ‘I like people who weren’t captured.’”
–Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni and Michael Tackett, “Months After John McCain’s Death, Trump Keeps Feud With Him Alive,” The New York Times online, March 20, 2019