Ross: Trump, McCain, and the Patton Principle

Mar 21, 2019, 11:32 AM

U.S. President Donald J. Trump. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

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KIRO Newsradio Host

It has the news media baffled! Why has President Trump gone after the late Senator John McCain twice this week — seven months after he passed away?

“I’ve never liked him much,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

But I believe the reason is this scene from the movie Patton, when the general says “Hell, you’re just a … coward.”

General Patton slaps a crying soldier and calls him a coward. Trump talked about that scene just before the election.

“…he’s been known to slap a soldier who was not exactly the kind of soldier he liked. But his people loved him, and his people would fight for him.”

Patton was forced to apologize but he kept his job because he knew how to win a war.

And Trump’s supporters back him because they believe he can win the war. That is, the war to keep the Socialist barbarians at bay. And he has a humming economy, low inflation, and instant media access to back him up.

His McCain insults are also a warning to any challenger who thinks that military service gives him or her some special claim on the presidency.

You will get McCained.

Because this president can not only slap a soldier, he can slap a departed war hero. And unlike Patton, he will never apologize.

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