Sen. Martha McSally gave it a try, sort of.

President Donald Trump ignored her.

McSally told reporters that she spoke directly to Trump on Wednesday about his continued insults of the late Sen. John McCain, saying in part, "I made it clear I love John McCain. John McCain is an American hero. This state reveres John McCain, and his family deserves respect by everybody. And so that's my message."

Adding, “I wanted to make sure he understood how I felt about Sen. McCain, and how Arizona felt about Sen. John McCain, and he heard me."

Trump listened, but he didn't hear you

Nope.

Hearing and listening can be two very different things.

Trump may have heard McSally.

But he ain’t listening.

In an interview Thursday with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo Trump again trashed McCain.

Bartiromo first noted that Trump had taken the opportunity earlier in the week to attack the late senator during a rally in Ohio.

“Sen. John McCain is dead,” she told the president. “Why are you doing this?”

The anti-McCain diatribe continues

Trump first said he’s not talking about McCain a lot, which he is.

He said he only speaks about McCain when asked, which isn’t true, as his tweeting and his comments in Ohio clearly prove.

Then Trump went into a mini-diatribe on the Steele dossier, saying McCain gave it to the FBI for "evil purposes," and finally said of McCain:

“I’m not a fan. He was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. What he did to the Republican Party and to the nation and to sick people that could have had great health care was not good. So I’m not a fan of John McCain and that’s fine.”

When Sen. McSally was asked if Trump was disrespecting McCain, she danced around the topic, just like all of the other Republican politicians who appear to fear Trump’s wrath more than value their own principles.

A lot of disrespect going around?

McSally said, "Again, there is a lot of disrespect going on out there all the way around.”

No, there’s not.

And McSally knows it.

John McCain, from his grave at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, is not showing any disrespect.

The disrespect is all coming from one direction.

From one place.

From one person.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.