Trump Says He Was ‘Not Informed About Anything’ Related to the McCain Navy Ship

L: President Donald Trump waves as he walks to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, May 8, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) R: The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) in the Pacific Ocean on Oct. 18, 2006. Seaman Stephen W. Rowe/U.S. Navy via Getty Images

President Donald Trump wrote in a tweet late May 29 that he was not informed about anything to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during his trip to Japan.

The tweet came shortly after the Wall Street Journal said that the White House had wanted the U.S. Navy to move the ship, named for the late Arizona senator John McCain, “out of sight,” during Trump’s recent trip to Japan.