Cindy McCain, in an interview broadcast Friday, said that she hopes President Trump learns from the midterm elections and realizes that “our country needs a strong leader, not a negative Nancy.”
“It’s very humbling to lose and I hope he learns from it,” McCain, whose late husband, Sen. John McCain, sparred regularly with Trump, told CBS News. She said she hopes the midterm results will take Trump “back to basics.”
“I hope he learns from it and realizes that our country needs a strong leader and not a negative Nancy, if I can put it in such a basic term,” she said. “We need our president. We need a White House that’s strong, we need a White House that’s not sparring with each other. And right now I think we’re — things are in disarray, and I would hope through this that he does learn.”
Senator McCain — a six-term Arizona senator, 2008 GOP presidential pick and Vietnam War hero — died in August after a fight with brain cancer. Trump did not attend McCain’s funeral after a lengthy feud that apparently went unresolved. In 2015, after McCain had said Trump’s platform had “fired up the crazies,” Trump mocked McCain’s imprisonment in the Vietnam War, saying: “I like people that weren’t captured.”- READ MORE