All Apologies From the White House. Not.

It happened during a White House staff meeting that was supposed to be behind closed doors.  They were apparently discussing Arizona's U.S. Senator John McCain's opposition to the nomination of Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice to be CIA director, for her less-than honest testimony in Senate confirmation hearings about her views on water torture.

McCain, who was known for spending most of the Vietnam War as a "guest" of the North Vietnamese government before parlaying his POW status into a successful political career, has been diagnosed with brain cancer.  He is not expected to live more than a year or two.  He and the President have not gotten along because, among other things, Trump once said he preferred soldiers who weren't captured.

With this in mind, staffer Kelly Sadler was said to have joked that McCain shouldn't be taken seriously because "he's dying anyway".

Bipartisan outrage followed by calls for the White House to not only apologize for the remark, but also to have Sadler fired.  Meghan McCain, the senator's daughter, said she spoke to Sadler about it and got a personal apology.

That's about the best the younger McCain is going to get from this White House, having not issued a formal apology to the Senator and to continue employing Sadler.  The staff prefers to see this as an internal matter, reading the riot act to anyone who tattles to the "fake news" media.  The President doesn't much care for leakers, either, but they seem to be doing a poor job in stopping them.

This incident shouldn't be considered unusual behavior for the Trump administration.  When was the last time the President apologized for much of anything?  He seems to think saying "I'm sorry" is a sign of weakness that too many of his predecessors used to engage in, and that it doesn't fit in with his plans to make America great again.

After all, Trump has said and tweeted nasty things about business associates, beauty queens, fellow GOP candidates, Hillary Clinton, the mainstream media, immigrants, certain European nations, law enforcement agencies, and anyone else who happened to stand in his way.  All this without so much as an apology.  So John McCain isn't the only person to feel the President's personal wrath.

There are also plenty of things going on in the Trump administration that demand an apology, which is something the President might have to answer for down the road.  But that's a long ways off.  Right now Trump is making people sorry they ever knew him.  Or voted for him.