Or is just  a
Big Case Of  TDS

MnSpring wrote on 09/05/18 at 16:36:39:



I think everyone (well, most) on here would say that you seem to be the one suffering from TDS.

Bless your heart.

As usual this is all Trump can do, like a particularly spoilt little rich kid. Not being allowed to attend a solemn funeral with the full pomp, he plays alone in his sandpit.

With his humiliation completed by Ivanka and Jared amongst the guests what did he have left to do, what could he do that would cause a storm but to makes sure he played golf and also send a tweet storm during the funeral.

There was minimal coverage. No one was playing that game. The juxtaposition is simply what is. However it will be lost when history sums up this wretched, vile person. It will be buried under an avalanche of incompetence, greed and corruption.

As Bush and Obama praised McCain for repeatedly placing country over party or self, the stunning contrast between the unifying ceremony under the neo-Gothic arches of Washington National Cathedral and an outcast Trump only highlighted the astonishing state of US politics.

Hailing his friend as "an extraordinary man" who embodied what is best in America, Obama said McCain, who battled fiercely but respectfully in the political arena, "made us better presidents - just as he made the Senate better, just as he made the country better."

Top Trump administration figures were also there including Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, White House chief of staff John Kelly and US defence secretary Jim Mattis. But Mr Trump, overlooked for an invite, was not.

Ms McCain, 33, made clear her views of the US president during her address. “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness,” she said.

“The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."

Mr Obama, who has not often criticised his predecessor, also appeared to have Mr Trump in mind as he issued a critique of today’s political debate.

"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage," Mr Obama said.

"It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born in fear. John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that."