Former President Trump, who claims he gave the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) the funeral he wanted despite the massive rift between them over the Russian dossier that has now been proven false, slammed the Arizona politician in his new book over his send-off, asserting that “Much like his wars, it never ended.”

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Trump was notably not invited to McCain’s funeral and the late senator’s family was full of vitriol aimed at him, especially from his daughter Meghan McCain. George W. Bush and Barack Obama both gave eulogies at McCain’s service.

The former president has written a new book, “Letters to Trump,” and in it, he takes a jab at his former nemesis. He recounts that he “never warmed” to the Republican moderate.

“Never felt good about anybody having anything to do with John McCain and never will, even despite the fact that at their request, I gave him the world’s longest funeral, 11 days. Much like his wars, it never ended,” Trump writes in his book.

“At the request of many of [Meghan’s] representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan,” he stated. “In his own very special way, he was a RINO’s RINO.”

Fact check: true. McCain's family used the entire spectacle to trash Trump. I hope when I die its not used for something so nugatory https://t.co/At8eVDlDn8

— Awakened (@BrandonHathaw12) April 26, 2023

McCain’s memorial service spanned five days across three different cities according to the Daily Mail.

The Arizona senator, who was a former naval officer and prisoner of war, died in 2018 at the age of 81 after a prolonged battle with brain cancer.

The feud between Trump and McCain began during Trump’s successful presidential campaign in 2016. McCain blasted his “uninformed” and “dangerous” statements on national security issues every chance he got. There was no love lost between the two men.

The former president mocked McCain’s service during the Vietnam War, where he was captured and tortured asserting that a real hero would not have been caught in the first place.

“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump according to Politico at the time. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Initially, when McCain passed, Trump tweeted his condolences to his family and he lowered the White House flags to half-staff. He raised the flags after two days but would go on to lower them again after heated criticism.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who is now in hospice himself, has previously criticized Trump for his reaction to McCain’s death. Carter also graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland just as McCain did.

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“I think both his (Trump’s) critics and also his supporters made it plain to him that he had made a mistake when the flag was up and down and so forth,” the former Democratic president remarked.

Former President Bill Clinton joined Bush and Obama at the funeral. Carter, who was the only other surviving former president, was invited but was unable to attend due to his failing health.

There were also at least four former secretaries of state as well as members of the House and Senate present at the funeral. McCain served in Congress for more than three decades and in the end, was more beloved by Democrats than he was by Republicans.

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, also attended the funeral. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis represented the Trump administration in the president’s absence.

In 2021, Trump branded Meghan McCain a “bully” and a “lowlife.” That was after she called Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner “funeral crashers” for showing up at John McCain’s memorial service.

“They should never have come, they had no business being there, I remember seeing them and seeing her specifically,” Meghan McCain railed according to Business Insider. “They had no goddamn business being there and it’s something that still angers me, clearly.”

“Letters to Trump” is selling for $399 for a signed copy and $99 for a regular version. You can get it for $95.39 on Amazon.

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