After a long battle with brain cancer, political maverick John McCain died this past Saturday at the age of 81.

Donald Trump gave a moving statement about his death and expressed his condolences to the family.

Just kidding – that shitgibbon couldn’t spell sympathy, let alone extend it.

Instead, Trump has faced criticism after he failed to pay tribute to McCain. Now one of his aides has confirmed that he will not be attending the lawmaker’s funeral, although he was never actually invited.

McCain, who has clashed with Trump many times despite being from the same party, went out swinging.

IOL reports that McCain, who constantly challenged the status quo and advocated for bipartisan solutions to the problems in America, wrote a farewell letter to America, which was released posthumously on Monday.

McCain offered his final thoughts, in a message read by his former campaign manager Rick Davis – and he did not spare the Republican president.

“We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe,” McCain said in the statement.

“We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been,” he added — an apparent reference to Trump’s plans for a border wall.

“I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil,” the former prisoner of war, two-time Republican presidential candidate and titan of US politics said.

“Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here,” he said, adding that the country “will get through these challenging times.”

The last paragraph appears to reference Trump’s “make America great again” slogan. Nicely done.

McCain also predicted Trump’s absence at his funeral.

With bad blood between them at the boil, McCain reportedly excluded Trump from his funeral ceremonies — a development that Davis confirmed on Monday.

“The president will not be, as far as we know, attending the funeral. That’s just a fact,” Davis told a press briefing in Arizona.

The two men who defeated McCain in his White House campaigns, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama, are expected to deliver eulogies at a Saturday service at the National Cathedral in Washington, a day after McCain’s body lies in state in the US Capitol.

McCain will be buried at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, this coming Sunday.

Trump will probably golf and send out angry tweets.

Plenty of people have picked apart McCain’s legacy, including his involvement in numerous wars, but we’ll part ways with the final page from the final book he wrote, when he knew his days were numberd:

[source:iol]