Trump opposed lowering flag because he thought McCain’s TV coverage was ‘more befitting a president’



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-opposed-lowering-flag-thought-mccains-tv-coverage-befitting-president-report/

President Donald Trump chose not to lower the U.S. flag to half staff for hours on Monday because he was angry about the glowing coverage of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Trump resisted, and viewed the news coverage of the former senator’s death as over-the-top and more befitting a president, according to people familiar with the situation.”


Trump eventually caved and issued a proclamation ordering the flag to be lowered to half staff.

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Marvin Gaye Gets To A Romantic Soul Landmark
Critics and fans acclaimed ‘Let’s Get It On’ as his best album yet, and it promptly went platinum within three weeks.

Published on August 28, 2018 By Paul Sexton

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/marvin-gayes-gets-to-romantic-soul-landmark/

Marvin Gaye started releasing albums at the age of just 22, in 1961. They started to cross over to a pop audience three years later, when his Together set with Mary Wells appeared. In 1971, the more mature Marvin really connected with the mainstream album audience on the classic What’s Going On. But he scaled even greater heights with the 1973 LP that was released on 28 August 1973 and started its chart journey on 15 September, Let’s Get It On.

Gaye fans were primed and ready for this sensuous celebration via the title track lead single, which hit the charts in July that year and was in the second of a six-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 when the album charted. Easily the longest-running pop No. 1 of the year in America, it was the perfect teaser for Marvin’s 13th studio LP.



Music critics purred with satisfaction at the new release. “Gaye uses his voice (in both lead and background) to create a dreamlike quality only slightly less surreal than he did on What’s Going On, his very best record to date,” wrote Jon Landau in Rolling Stone.

“But while on the earlier work he sang of the difference between his vision of God’s will and man’s life,” Landau continued, “he is currently preoccupied with matters purely secular — love and sex. And yet he continues to transmit that same degree of intensity, sending out near cosmic overtones while eloquently phrasing the sometimes simplistic lyrics.”

President Trump will not attend McCain’s services

There will be one notable absence from McCain’s services, which President Donald Trump does not plan to attend. Trump and McCain frequently feuded, and McCain offered a veiled rebuke of Trump’s policies in a farewell letter released Monday.

“Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country and, in his honor, have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff until the day of his interment,” Trump said in a statement Monday afternoon, after facing criticism for raising the flag at the White House back to full staff Monday morning.

“I have asked Vice President Mike Pence to offer an address at the ceremony honoring Senator McCain at the United States Capitol this Friday,” Trump said in the statement, adding that he asked Chief of Staff John Kelly, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and National Security Advisor John Bolton to represent the Administration at McCain’s services.

http://time.com/5378461/john-mccain-funeral-plans/

May 5, 2018

His intimates have informed the White House that their current plan for his funeral is for Vice President Mike Pence to attend the service to be held in Washington’s National Cathedral but not President Trump, with whom Mr. McCain has had a rocky relationship.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/politics/john-mccain-arizona.html

North Korea tells U.S. denuclearization talks may fall apart: CNN
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korean officials have warned in a letter to the United States that denuclearization talks were “again at stake and may fall apart”, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The letter was delivered directly to U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and stated that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government felt that the process could not move forward.

"The U.S. is still not ready to meet (North Korean) expectations in terms of taking a step forward to sign a peace treaty," CNN reported, citing sources. cnn.it/2MAI9AT

The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving U.S.-led U.N. forces technically still at war with North Korea.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-korea-tells-u-s-denuclearization-talks-may-fall-apart-cnn-idUSKCN1LC2H8

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100 Senators and 435 Reps, only 4 get shadow banned: Gaetz, Meadows, Nunes, Jordan.

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Watching the American flag go up and down the White House flag pole over whether and how to honor the life of John McCain is a perfect symbol for an administration morally and emotionally adrift from common decency.

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