John McCain's Son Calls Donald Trump's Arlington National Cemetery Visit A 'Violation'

Jimmy McCain, the son of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has called out Donald Trump for using his recent Arlington National Cemetery visit to campaign — something that is in violation of the military cemetery’s rules and has been at the center of a major controversy over the past week.

According to a Tuesday report from CNN, Jimmy McCain said the 2024 presidential candidate’s conduct at the Virginia site “just blows me away.”

“These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice” of whether to participate in a political campaign, said McCain, who has served in the military for 17 years.

The controversy surrounding Trump’s Aug. 26 visit unfolded after NPR reported that some of his aides got into a verbal and physical altercation with a cemetery employee, who’d tried to stop the campaign from taking photos or videos among the recently buried veterans. Trump’s camp has denied any altercation, described the cemetery employee as “suffering from a mental health episode” and stated that it was allowed a photographer during the visit.

Two days after the incident, Trump posted a TikTok video of his cemetery visit with clear political intent. The footage showed the GOP nominee walking among graves as audio played of him denouncing Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential administration.

“It was a violation,” McCain said of Trump posing near gravestones, telling CNN that he registered as a Democrat weeks ago. “That mother, that sister, those families, see that — and it’s a painful experience.”

The debacle showed that Trump doesn’t understand what it means to serve one’s country, suggested McCain, who has relatives buried at the Virginia cemetery.

“I just think that for anyone who’s done a lot of time in their