Trump photographed at a Charleston, West Virginia rally on August 21, 2018.

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Donald Trump can’t stop congratulating himself over gaining the favor of America’s sweethearts Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, even when—or perhaps especially when—there are many more important things he could be talking about instead. At a fundraising dinner for the Ohio Republican Party in Columbus Friday night, video of which was obtained by NBC News, Trump gave a speech that was full of congratulatory language for himself, and not much else. Particularly, Trump neglected once again to make any mention of John McCain, whose family announced hours before the fundraiser that he would no longer seek treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Instead, Trump focused on the Kardashian-Wests, and how good they were for his “numbers”: “All of a sudden those numbers started going up, up, up, and we did great. Now we’re doing great and Kanye West liked me. And that really lifted my [numbers].”

“Kanye West has some real power!” Trump continued. “And he’s got a good wife too in Kim, I’ll tell ya. She really is. She did a great thing, a great thing,” he said, referencing Kardashian’s months-long campaign to convince Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson.

The president even sent his “warmest regards” to Kim Jong Un, but declined to say anything about McCain, though plenty of both Democrats and Republicans have already made statements in support of the senator. McCain’s family announced via Twitter that he had made the decision to stop medical treatment for his cancer, diagnosed in spring of 2017. “In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival,” the statement said. “But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.”

A little more than a week ago, Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act at Fort Drum in New York, and yet again never mentioned McCain’s name—and even erased it from the title of the bill in his speech.