"USS John McCain needs to be out of sight," a Navy official instructed in an email about the visit, according to the newspaper. "I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan," the president tweeted. Trump and McCain, who died in August and who was taken prisoner and tortured during the Vietnam war, had a contentious political relationship. Before McCain died of brain cancer at the age of 81, he said he didn't want Trump attending his funeral. Even after McCain's death, the president has continued to make his dislike of the senator known: "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be," Trump said in March.

Source: Bangkok Post May 30, 2019 03:33 UTC