Of is it rather that John Lewis was a HERO and we know pumpkin does not like heroes. They may him look bad as five-time fake bonespur draft dodgers.
Remember his disgust at the way John McCain was being discussed? The jealousy envy and HATRED pumpkin showed for John when he was alive and did not abate at all when John McCain died?
The pumpkin is a very small green man filled with greed envy hate. There is no room for anything else inside.