The two repeatedly butted heads after Trump entered politics.
The White House has returned its flags to full-mast just two days after the death of Senator John McCain.
Recent traditions saw flags lowered to half-mast between the Member of Congress’ death and their burial.
Usually, flags are lowered by Presidential proclamation, as Barack Obama ordered for three senators during his tenure as president — as well as for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
However, this time around, Trump did not make any presidential proclamation around the flags. Nevertheless, flags remain at half-mast around the Washington Monument, and at Capitol Hill, where the US Senate sits. According to the US Flag Code, two days in the minimum time that the flags should fly at half-mast for a member of the House of Congress.
McCain had established himself as a dissenting voice against many features of Trump’s presidency — including his relationship with Russia, and the American Health Care Act, which McCain decisively voted against in 2017.
Trump insulted McCain while campaigning for the presidency, mocking McCain’s time spent as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, saying “He’s a hero because he was captured, I like people who weren’t captured.”
Many are perceiving Trump’s refusal to issue a proclamation around McCain’s death, and quickness to restore the flags to full-mast, is another sign of his animosity towards the former Senator, who died on Saturday, just over a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
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Camera shot facing south over the White House – you can see the flag at the WH at full staff while the flags surrounding the Washington Monument are lowered pic.twitter.com/xT2KdPLgpB
— Karen Travers (@karentravers) August 27, 2018
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