Because grace isn’t something that Trump knows much about, he couldn’t let it go. He took to Twitter to refute Johnson’s claims, then he also talked to the press about it, which by the way, is how you know it’s really bothering him. It didn’t help matters for POTUS that other Gold Star families spoke up about how Trump either hadn’t called, hadn’t been particularly supportive on the call, or had made promises he didn’t keep. In one case, he told a Gold Star father that he’d be making a $25,000 donation to the family before going radio silent — that is, until the story made national headlines.