Trump, pettiest man alive, excludes any mention of McCain at signing of bill named in his honor

When ABC News wrote a piece early on Monday about Donald Trump heading to upstate New York’s Fort Drum later in the day to sign the 2019 military funding bill, the organization imagined that Trump would “have a hard time ignoring the man whose name is attached to it: John McCain.”

Wrong.

No mention of John McCain by any of the speakers at Trump event to sign act named in honor of McCain.

Trump omitted McCain from the title, calling it “the national defense authorization act.” pic.twitter.com/8gJisvhgkU

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 13, 2018

In fact, not only did Trump omit McCain’s name entirely from his speech at the signing of the “John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act”—likely the last such defense bill McCain, a war hero, will ever steward to enactment as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee—not a single speaker dared to mention McCain’s name, according to accounts from reporters covering the event. Not one, because god forbid President Bone Spurs allow even a moment of decency and gratitude be granted to someone who actually fought and nearly died for this country.

Never underestimate Trump’s capacity for being the most petty and pathetic commander in chief this country has ever seen. It’s a maxim journalists should have tattooed on their arms at this point.