Presidential aspirant and American billionaire Donald Trump does not need to apologize to Arizona Sen. John McCain for his inappropriate comments. But Trump has a lot of apologizing to do to the other veterans of the Vietnam war.

Reacting to an earlier statement by Trump, who claimed that McCain was a hero of the Vietnam war just because he was captured, McCain said the billionaire does not owe him an apology.

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"He needs to apologize to the families of those Vietnam war veterans who have sacrificed and those who underwent the prison experience just to serve the country," McCain tells MSNBC.

McCain, who was silent for days about Trump's incendiary comments, said Trump's statement was totally inappropriate, especially when Trump said that he does not like those people who were captured during the war.

"I am not a hero. The heroes were my senior ranking officials, those that inspired us to do things that otherwise we would not have been capable of doing. I take great honor to serve in the company of heroes," McCain stressed.

Trump's statement against McCain earned the ire of other Republic presidential candidates, who lambasted Trump and asked him to apologize.

Secretary of State John Kerry also came to McCain's defense, saying the 2008 Republication presidential nominee was a hero.

While McCain served five years inside a North Vietnam prison during the war, Trump held a comfortable job at a real estate firm owned by his father, Time has reported.

It was not the first time that Trump figured in a rather negative publicity since he announced his aspirations to become the next US president.

He was also lambasted for his comments against Mexican immigrants, describing them as rapists and murderers.

McCain and Trump have been trading rather unpleasant words over the last couple of weeks. McCain said the billionaire businessman "fired up the crazies" when he held a rally in Phoenix. Trump, meanwhile, described McCain as someone who does not have common sense.

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