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    In 'Stronger,' Cindy McCain Reflects On Life With — And Without — Her Late Husband John McCain

    Her candid memoir "Stronger: Courage, Hope, and Humor in My Life with John McCain" is out Tuesday.
    Apr 27, 2021 7 minutes
    Presidential candidate John McCain (L) and his wife, Cindy McCain, smile for the camera at their family ranch, March 9, 2000, near Sedona, Arizona. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

    Former President Donald Trump made his dislike for then-Arizona Sen. John McCain known on the presidential campaign trail in 2015.

    Trump repeatedly put down the Republican party’s 2008 presidential nominee. Trump publicly excoriated the former prisoner of war’s military record and even resisted lowering the flags at the White House when John McCain died of brain cancer in 2018.

    The late senator’s wife, Cindy McCain, wrote about this conflict with Trump in her new memoir, “Stronger: Courage, Hope, and Humor in My Life with John McCain.” Cindy McCain says she decided to write about Trump’s personal attacks because it upset her, especially when John McCain was sick, but her husband laughed off the former president’s unkind behavior.

    Cindy McCain endorsed family friend Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but she still identifies as a Republican and believes in ideas such as small government.

    “What I didn’t want was a continuation of this horrible incivility and this lack of dignity and lack of respect and empathy and all the things that have been exhibited,” she says. “I felt our country

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