White House wanted to call John McCain a "hero", but Donald Trump was having none of it
The 81-year-old Arizona Senator died on Saturday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer he was diagnosed with nearly a year ago.
President Donald Trump reportedly turned down the release of an official White House statement lauding Senator John McCain as a "hero" and tweeted an apparently curt reaction to his Republican colleague's death. The 81-year-old Arizona Senator died on Saturday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer he was diagnosed with nearly a year ago. The announcement that he was ceasing medical treatment for his cancer was made by his family on Friday.
According to The Washington Post report Sunday, Trump decided to do away with the White House statement, which his aides, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had prepared for the president to use.