When President Trump was heading to West Virginia to give a speech to the Boy Scouts last summer, aides came to him with an idea: Make a side trip to Arizona to visit Republican Sen. John McCain, who had just been diagnosed with brain cancer, a person familiar with the matter said. Mr. Trump said no. He told them he and Mr. McCain plainly didn’t like one another and it would seem “phony” and hypocritical for him to make the trip, the person said.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 26, 2018 22:08 UTC