John McCain Tweets Racist 'Monkey' Joke, Gets Slapped Down by Another Republican Congressman Cord Jefferson · 02/04/13 01:03PM Consummate terribly unfunny jokester Senator John McCain—he of the infamous gorilla rape quip—is back at it again on Twitter, this time with a crack about how Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is nothing but a monkey. Get it?