Trump White House Aide On John McCain: "It Doesn't Matter, He's Dying Anyway"

Sen. John McCain

White House communications aide Kelly Sadler demonstrated yesterday the Trump Nation disdain for being "politically correct" by offering a distasteful assessment of Sen. John McCain's opposition to Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.

Said Sadler of McCain, “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway.”

From The Hill:

Special assistant Kelly Sadler made the derisive comments during a closed-door White House meeting of about two-dozen communications staffers on Thursday morning.

“It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway,” Sadler said, according to a source familiar with the remarks at the meeting.

The White House did not deny the account of Sadler’s remarks, which came amid a discussion of Haspel’s nomination and McCain’s opposition to it.

A WH official confirms WH aide Kelly Sadler mocked John McCain’s cancer diagnosis saying “he’s dying anyway” in response to his opposition to Haspel nomination. The “joke... fell flat” the official said.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 10, 2018

@kellysadler45 May I remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren.

— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) May 10, 2018

Meghan McCain on Kelly Sadler’s comments about her father: "I don't understand what kind of environment you're working in when that would be acceptable and then you could come to work the next day and still have a job." (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/WpiMGPlYUw

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2018

"It was a hard day yesterday," Meghan McCain says on @TheView, but adds: "My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. These people? Nothingburgers."

— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) May 11, 2018

The White House communications official who mocked “dying” McCain during a meeting, is @kellysadler45. Our taxes pay her damn salary.
Oh, one more thing. Kindly, don’t ever talk to me again about the cruelty of a “smoky-eye” joke. https://t.co/sGtDlcsJD4

— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) May 10, 2018

For those who may not recall, McCain served his country in the Air Force, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for years where he was tortured, spent decades in Congress and was the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.

Whether you agree or disagree with his political positions, few have dedicated their lives to the U.S. as McCain has. Surely in a White House meeting a little more decorum could be found?

But no. That would be "political correctness."

#MAGA