Because denying reality is part of what Trump****s are good at...

"At the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, during his
presidential campaign, Trump mocked McCain, who was captured and
tortured by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, saying
he liked people who “weren’t captured” and aren’t “losers.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...ld-trump-john-
mccain-loser-a4540421.html