Muttering all these names, but was John McCain praying, or was he feeling pangs of jealousy, knowing that HE once had a shot at the very same office he saw Trump being sworn into, but which he had thrown away?
Some minds move in oblique directions, and may not have been with the full volition of the one doing the muttering.
Political version of Tourette’s Syndrome.
He was reciting the names of the first people he wanted to look up after he arrived...in Hell.