Montini: Donald Trump lied to Meghan McCain, and she’s ticked off

President Donald Trump has been mocking and criticizing Sen. John McCain since before the presidential election. But a while back, knowing that McCain is now receiving treatment for brain cancer, Trump told the senator’s daughter, Meghan, that he would stop insulting her father.

Then – being Trump – he did just the opposite.

Earlier this month Meghan McCain said the president had reached out to her and told her he would stop publicly trashing Sen. McCain.

Meghan said afterward, “I don’t believe he would go there again. I don’t think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way.”

He promised not to ... but then 

Apparently, Trump disagreed.

Or didn’t care.

Or both.

While speaking at the American Conservative Union’s annual meeting recently, Trump took a moment to deride Sen. McCain for having voted against the Republican effort to gut the Affordable Care Act. The president used his thumbs for visual aids.

Trump said, "Remember, one person walked into a room, when he was supposed to go this way (thumb up), and he said he was going this way (thumb up), and he walked in and he went this way (thumb down), and everyone said, 'What happened? What was that all about?' Boy, oh boy.”

He added, “Who was that? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know," Trump asked the audience, which responded by shouting McCain's name and booing.

"I don't want to be controversial, so I won't use his name," Trump said. "What a mess. But it's all happening anyway."

Meghan gets mad

This didn’t sit well with the senator’s daughter, as it wouldn’t with any daughter who believed that she had been lied to by a man disparaging her father.

Meghan McCain is one of the co-hosts of The View. She said of the president’s remarks, “As you know, President Trump took some potshots at my father and got the crowd at CPAC to boo him.”

She announced that her mother, Cindy, will appear with her on The View Wednesday and “both of us will be addressing this … and talk about what it’s like having this continue to happen while my father battles brain cancer.”

John McCain is plenty tough enough to take care of himself.

His five-plus years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp easily beats Trump’s five draft deferments (the capper – bone spurs).

But it’s good – it’s actually important – for Meghan and Cindy to point out the difference between what Trump promises to do and what he actually does.

After all, if he would lie to a gravely ill man’s daughter about no longer ridiculing her father, what else is he capable of lying about?

Never mind  … I’m guessing you know the answer to that.

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