Slamming 70-year-old President Donald Trump for saying “he’d be honored” to speak with North Korean President Kim Jong-un, 80-year-old Sen. John McCain (R-Az.,)continues to make the rounds on liberal news shows. Since Trump took office Nov. 8, 2016, McCain’s been Trump harshest critic on Capitol Hill, betraying his loyalty to the GOP. When McCain lost to former President Barack Obama in 2008, he’s been on the warpath, criticizing Obama’s every move, now transferring that same ire to Trump. McCain ripped Trump for saying he’d be “honored” to speak with the North Korean dictator. “I don’t understand it, and I don’t think that the president appreciates the fact that when he says things like that, it helps the credibility and the prestige of this really outrageous strongman,” McCain told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe’s” former Rep. Joe Scarborough and his co-host Mika Brzrezinski.
McCain’s the favorite guest on liberal networks looking the blast Trump for whatever the controversy du jour. With North Korea and the U.S. on the brink of possible war, Trump thought it appropriate to send an overture on the airwaves to the reclusive Stalinist leader. McCain likes to call dictators around the world killers and thugs, something that resonates with the liberal press. Trump has the world hanging in the balance with the North Korean tyrant threatening nuclear war against the U.S. and its allies. “You know, the largest gulag left on the earth is North Korea, and we all know about their human rights abuses,” said McCain, ripping Trump for using diplomacy to entice Kim back into discussions. With the Pacific Rim nervous over the escalating threats from the U.S. and North Korea, all parties look for an icebreaker to de-escalate the tensions.
When Trump said some positive things about Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the 2016 campaign, McCain did everything possible to block a reset of U.S.-Russian relations. McCain was the one who handed FBI Director James Comey Hillary’s paid opposition research, the so-called dossier, on Trump, prompting surveillance of Trump campaign associates. McCain routinely calls Putin a “thug and a killer,” something designed to prevent any reset of U.S.-Russian relations. McCain helped create the Russian hysteria sweeping Capitol Hill, accusing Tump of colluding with the Kremlin to win the Nov. 8, 2016 presidential election. ‘I think it’s very disturbing,” McCain told Scarborough and Brzezinski. McCain didn’t like when Trump told Bloomberg News May 1 he’d meet with Kim if it were appropriate, knowing the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
McCain’s criticism of Trump about meeting with Kim Jong-un feed the liberal narrative that Trump admires dictators. “Does the president have a thing with these totalitarian leaders?” asked New York Times Glenn Thrush. “Does he admire something about the way these guys conduct themselves?” said Thrush, taking a cheap political shot at the president. McCain knows that at a time of acute political tensions, it doesn’t help to hurl insults at world leaders. Instead of letting Trump conduct his foreign policy as commander-in-chief, McCain exposes his perpetual sour grapes over losing to Obama in 2008. McCain’s role as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is not to set U.S. foreign or defense policy, only oversight. Liberal news outlets, whether broadcast or print, like exploiting McCain who’s more than willing to take a shot at Trump, whether warranted or not.
Exposing McCain’s warmongering propensities, he was all smiles when Trump shot 59 Cruise missiles at a Syrian air base or hit Afghanistan with a 10-ton MOAB bomb. McCain can’t have it both ways: Criticizing Trump when things don’t go his way while, at the same time, praising him when he approves of Trump’s actions. McCain sees Trump as a foreign policy novice, while seeing himself as the last word on foreign and defense policy. McCain urged former President Barack Obama to set up a dangerous no-fly zone in Syria, insisting the U.S. should shoot down Syrian and Russia jets if they violate it. Supporting the six-year-old Saudi proxy war in Syria, McCain’s urged Obama and now Trump to keep funding various rebel groups to topple the sovereign government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. McCain wasn’t happy when Trump bombed Syria for using chemical weapons without changing his policy.
McCain’s too egotistical to see how damaging he is to U.S. foreign policy. Appearing on liberal news broadcasts or printed liberal papers, McCain does damage to Trump’s foreign policy. Finding a ready voice to criticize Trump, it’s high time McCain stop sabotaging Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. “There are many things that the president has done that I strongly support as far as national security,” said McCain, referring to Trump’s decision of bomb Syria and Afghanistan. “But the statements and comments obviously fly in the face of everything I’ve stood for and believed in all my life,” said McCain, referring to Trump willingness under the right conditions to meet with Kim Jong-un. Instead of serving at a leftist mouthpiece, McCain should learn his place on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Letting Trump be commander-in-chief would be a great first step.
