On Sunday, Breitbart.com reported that John McCain, the alleged Republican Senator from Arizona, told the liberal Guardian that American leadership was better under former President Barack Obama than current President Donald Trump.
According to the Guardian:
Senator John McCain, a prominent Republican voice on foreign policy, was visibly irked when asked by the Guardian what message Trump had sent to the United Kingdom, one of America’s most enduring allies.
“What do you think the message is? The message is that America doesn’t want to lead,” McCain said, while adding of the rest of the world: “They are not sure of American leadership, whether it be in Siberia or whether it be in Antarctica.”
Asked if America’s standing on the global stage was better under Barack Obama, McCain, a fervent critic of the previous administration’s foreign policy, responded: “As far as American leadership is concerned, yes.”
It’s not the first time McCain has slammed Trump as Breitbart noted:
McCain — who lost his 2008 presidential bid against then-candidate Obama after a campaign in which he repeatedly defended Obama from his supporters’ criticisms — has been an outspoken critic of Trump and has refused to tone it down since his fellow Republican took the White House.
In a recent tour of Australia, McCain told an audience in Sydney that Trump has “unsettled” allies and Americans alike.
“Other American allies have similar doubts these days and this is understandable,” McCain said, according to The Associated Press at the city’s university. “I realize that some of President Trump’s actions and statements have unsettled America’s friends. They have unsettled many Americans as well.”
He went on to urge the Australians to “keep at” the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal in the hope that one day “America will decide to join you.”
He also said in an interview with an Australian TV network that Trump makes him “nervous from time to time” and said he was bothered that Trump does not always take the advice of his national security team.
“Can I tell you that he does all the time? No. Does it bother me? Yes, it bothers me,” McCain said.
Perhaps it’s time for McCain to stop pretending that he’s a Republican and officially become a Democrat…
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- McCain bashes Trump: Dictators ‘get started by suppressing free press’
- John McCain: Barack Obama ‘smarter than the rest of us’
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