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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the Con won't attend the funeral because of
security issues? WTF is that supposed to mean?
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)ex Presidents and others in attendance.
malaise
(269,157 posts)The Genealogist and other DUers are correct - it's insecurity reasons.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)He was never going to be the center of attention and they hate his guts.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)JDC
(10,130 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But he'll be attending his own funeral, whenever that is, since it'll be about him. I've heard that it will have the largest crowd at a funeral in history..many more than Obama's (although Obama's will not have happened yet). He has the best funerals. Everyone knows it and says so. He does the best funerals. He will have the best funeral ever, and Mexico will pay for it.
The large crowd may be for verification
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I would only attend just to make absolutely sure that he was really dead.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,191 posts)He's a showman. He knows it's all about giving people what they want.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)That's what we get for electing the biggest asshole on the planet.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Add the entire Bush/Pierce clan and he'd be a total and complete misfit.
Initech
(100,099 posts)When you get to the section on presidents and the one for president 45 (2017 - 2021) is a complete blank section.
malaise
(269,157 posts)for these years so they can fill in th e blanks for others - he's a detestable creep.
misanthrope
(7,421 posts)They're about the same age as Poppy and Babs.
malaise
(269,157 posts)but Mrs. Carter hasn't been well.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)It's actually a GOOD thing for those who are attending that he's not.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)This thread has some real DUzys
ornotna
(10,805 posts)You know he doesn't do rejection very well, so his story is him rejecting them for bullshit reasons.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)The late first lady hated his guts.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)If that is what this is about, it makes sense.
In that company he will stick out as unworthy, illegitimate and a complete and total fraud. And even he knows that.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)W is a joke in that sense but his father was a reasonable leader and Obama and Clinton's are tremendous leaders.
Rump knows the world will laugh at him if he tries to be in the same arena as them.
KansasKali
(105 posts)Also it isn't about him so he is barely aware the issue at all.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Besides, if he can't make a speech and get all of the attention and make the funeral about himself, why bother going?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)The Bush family probably told Trump to fork off.
JHB
(37,161 posts)elocs
(22,597 posts)President Barack Obama will not attend Nancy Reagan's funeral on Friday, opting instead to speak at a festival in Austin, Texas.
South by Southwest an annual music, tech, and film gathering announced last week that Obama would be the keynote speaker on March 11, and that Michelle Obama was scheduled to speak on March 16. It's the first time in the festival's 30-year history that a sitting president and first lady have participated.
But this doesn't fit the narrative here, does it? Had President Obama attended Nancy Reagan's funeral there would be a good point to criticizing Trump now, but he didn't.
Would it pleased people here more if Trump had said he was going to speak somewhere?
One was a prearranged keynote speech - the other has the WH saying he won't attend for security reasons. And yet his wife will be there. Please compare like with like.
elocs
(22,597 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)but we ought to compare like with like
elocs
(22,597 posts)One might ask, is the funeral of a former first lady more or less important than a speaking engagement? And had he cancelled would they understand?
There is so much big stuff to go after Trump for why screw around with this piddly stuff in comparison?
malaise
(269,157 posts)It is the excuse that is unacceptable - security is not an excuse at this funeral.
onecaliberal
(32,887 posts)the third wife will be there, so it's not like there won't be any security.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)the exception would be Eleanor Roosevelt's funeral which President Kennedy did attend (as did Truman, Eisenhower, LBJ, and their wives). They also all attended a lunch at John Roosevelt's home. (Funny story from "The Atlantic" on the 50th anniversary of Eleanor's death. The three presidents were standing in a corner talking "shop" when James Roosevelt's wife interrupted them by saying "Mr. President, your wife would like to see you now." They had to ask "Which Mr. President?" Turned out it was Bess Truman looking for Harry.)
Bill Clinton did not attend Jackie Kennedy's funeral Mass in NYC (Hillary did) but he did meet the plane when it landed in D.C. and attended the burial at Arlington.