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Over the weekend Donald Trump said that Senator John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured.

McCain said Trump should apologize to veterans after he dismissed the US senator’s military record because he was taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.

“I am not a hero“.

Sen McCain, speaking for the first time since Mr Trump’s controversial remarks, played down the personal attack, and instead said the Republican presidential candidate owed an apology to all veterans.

McCain was responding to Trump’s suggestion at a Saturday gathering of social conservatives in Iowa that the 2008 GOP presidential nominee and former prisoner of war is “not a war hero”.

After dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because he was captured in Vietnam and saying “I like people who weren’t captured“, Trump declared “I will say what I want to say”.

Clinton called McCain a genuine war hero and said it was shameful “that it took so long for most of his fellow Republican candidates to start standing up to” Trump.

Jack McCain, the fourth in his family to graduate from the Naval Academy, said he is less concerned about Trump apologizing to his father, which he has declined to do, than to other prisoners of war and military veterans.

McCain told MSNBC this morning that Trump doesn’t need to apologize to him, but should tell veterans he’s sorry.

Sen. John McCain said Monday Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doesn’t need to apologize to him for remarks about his long captivity in Vietnam, but should tell veterans and their families that he’s sorry.

The op-ed comes as Trump is on the defensive for dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because McCain was captured in Vietnam and, “I like people who weren’t captured“.

John McCain says Donald Trump doesn’t owe him an apology but should express sorrow to other prisoners of war and their families.

John McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam who was the Republican Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, has suggested Trump is appealing to “the crazies”.

Asked on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” if Trump should apologize personally to him, McCain said: “I don’t think so”.

In the coming days, a deservedly significant amount of energy will be spent analyzing and dissecting the political impact of Donald Trump’s crass and irresponsible comments about Senator John McCain.