CNN’s Jake Tapper is weighing in on a New York Times report that Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainCindy McCain endorses Biden: He's only candidate 'who stands up for our values' Biden says Cindy McCain will endorse him Biden's six best bets in 2016 Trump states MORE (R-Ariz.) doesn’t want President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE at his funeral, calling it a “real moment for the country.”

“This is a real moment for the country where an American hero, somebody who is beloved in many, many ways, is saying, ‘I don’t want this guy at my funeral,’” Tapper said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

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The Times reported Saturday that McCain's inner circle has communicated to the White House that the senator would like Vice President Pence to attend his eventual funeral at the Washington National Cathedral, but not Trump.

Rep. Gregory Meeks Gregory Weldon MeeksBottom line Democrats go big on diversity with new House recruits Chamber of Commerce, banking industry groups call on Senate to pass corporate diversity bill MORE (D-N.Y.) said during a panel discussion on Tapper's CNN show that McCain is “known for being honest, just the opposite of Donald Trump."

“I wouldn’t expect anything to be different for Mr. McCain, Sen. McCain, now. He is not going to be a hypocrite. He does not believe that Donald Trump represents the kind of moral authority the president of the United States should represent for our country,” Meeks said.

And conservative commentator and HLN host S.E. Cupp, who is close friends with McCain’s daughter Meghan, added that McCain is “not a sellout.”

“I think having President Trump, just because he’s the president, just speak on his behalf or eulogize him or memorialize him is selling out,” Cupp said.

“And Sen. McCain — I say this not just as his daughter’s best friend but as a Republican who supported him — Sen. McCain is everything that President Trump is not,” Cupp continued. “In every way that you discussed, in every way you imagine.”

McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer last year and is undergoing treatment.