Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday shot back at President Trump after Trump warned the Arizona Republican that, at some point, the president would “fight back.”
“I’ve faced far greater challenges than this,” McCain said, according to a CNN reporter.
The back-and-forth comes after McCain in a speech late Monday blasted “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in the United States.
{mosads}“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” McCain said after receiving the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal.
Trump was asked about the remarks from McCain during a radio interview on Tuesday — and issued a warning.
“At some point, I fight back and it won’t be pretty,” Trump said on “The Chris Plante Show.”
McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, served in the Navy for more than two decades and spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump has attacked McCain in the past after he voted against a GOP bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.