But where did it all start?
Buckle up, it’s quite the ride.
It started back in 1999.

Trump went on “60 Minutes” to tease a presidential run.
I’m not sure."
I mean, right here, in your own state, you have John McCain."

“Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”
Later that same month, Trump returned to his 1999 verbiage.
He was a war hero because he was captured.

I like people who weren’t captured" (viaPolitico).
I’m very disappointed in John McCain."
But I have daughters.

I have so many wonderful people on my staff.
They cannot be degraded and demeaned in that fashion."
Both men won their elections in November 2016, but they still never saw eye to eye.
This happened just a few weeks after McCain announced he had brain cancer (viaBusiness Insider).
And I never got along with John McCain …
I respected him, but I really disagreed with him on a lot of things.