https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/politics/uss-mccain-navy-ship.html White House Asked Navy to Hide John McCain Warship During Trump’s Visit The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said Wednesday. Although Navy officials insisted they did not hide the ship, the John S. McCain, they did give all of the sailors aboard the day off on Tuesday as Mr. Trump visited Yokosuka Naval Base. Two Navy sailors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the McCain sailors were not invited to hear Mr. Trump speak that day aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, while sailors from other American warships at the base were. A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said. Navy officials approached last week by The New York Times about plans for the McCain during Mr. Trump’s visit declined to comment. But one official said on Thursday that sailors aboard the destroyer were told to hide signs that identified that warship during Mr. Trump’s visit. At least a few service members wore round patches emblazoned with a likeness of Mr. Trump and the words “Make Aircrew Great Again” — a play on the president’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” — on their flight suits while listening to their commander in chief speak. Images of the patches promptly went viral. “They’re inappropriate & against regulation,” tweeted Mark Hertling, a retired three-star Army general
It's pretty much a good thing for Meghan McCain because she seems to be making a career out of being outraged about anyone mentioning her father in anything other than a saintly manner. She has big feud going now with Amy Klobachr for even mentioning her father. And Klobachar is falling all over herself to clarify that McCain was the greatest man who ever lived but she only meant this and that........... So I expect that Meghan will go into a rant on the View and then be put on a hear lung machine or something. It seems to be her daily routine. What a cow she is.
The hypocrites on the right will excuse anything from Trump.Just imagine if Obama had done this. RIP hero McCain.
so trump and the Whitehouse do something pathetic like this and you criticize McCain's daughter for it. what a fucking douche nozzle.
I can only imagine Fox talking heads and right wing wackos all over internet exploding with Rage. The one undeniable benefit of Trump, he exposed evangelicals and far right as biggest hypocrites in history.
Okay, so here we go, right on schedule. You could have set your clock by it. Meghan McCain calls Trump a 'child' who is making her 'grief unbearable' after claims her father's ship was kept 'out of sight' during visit to Japan https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-grief-unbearable-claims-ship-kept-sight.html
Some Navy units put out the welcome mat for Trump. Very thoughtful on their part. I wonder- if Warren is elected- they will put patches on with pictures of Pocahontas, or perhaps it is too soon to be thinking about that. We will deal with it later. https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/navy-probing-troops-unofficial-make-aircrew-great-again-patches/
Oh look, propaganda pushed by right wing rag aimed at misdirection. Oh look, apologist shill saying it's ok to have a politicized military