Trump Fires Back After McCain Attacks ‘Spurious Nationalism’
US President Donald Trump has issued a warning to Senator John McCain a day after his fellow Republican delivered a thinly veiled attack in a speech.
“People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Trump told a Washington radio station on Tuesday.
On Monday, the senator deplored “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in a perceived slight at Trump’s so-called America First policy.
“I’m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty,” Trump told WMAL on Tuesday in response to a question about the senator’s remarks.
McCain was applauded as he said: “To fear the world we have organised and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
