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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone explain this? It is normal to be giving a thumbs up to a departing grieving family?
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump slipped out of the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday after the casket carrying the remains of the late President George H.W. Bush was carried up the aisle of the grand church.
The first couple, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, followed the Bush family and the casket up the aisle at the conclusion of Bush's state funeral.
But then they left to return to the White House, getting back there before the hearse carrying Bush's remains had left the church grounds
The early exit gave President Trump a way to avoid talking to his predecessors and with Hillary Clinton, his 2016 campaign rival who pointedly ignored him as he and the first lady entered the cathedral for the service.
Shell_Seas
(3,335 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)It's what he does.
llmart
(15,550 posts)I'm surprised he didn't do that.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Unlike other sociopaths (Bundy, Ridgeway, etc) he never had to learn to pretend to have human emotions or compassion.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)samnsara
(17,634 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)With his brain a very close third.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)tell the press that Obama, Michelle, Biden and his wife, and Carter acted inappropriately?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)forced to listen to GHWB's presidency being praised. Can't wait.....
Doreen
(11,686 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)No situational awareness whatsoever.
Ohiogal
(32,045 posts)and acts like a boor. They think he's a real "maverick" and a "common man" type. Yeesh.
unc70
(6,117 posts)Lars39
(26,110 posts)He and the missus look very unhappy.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)That takes the mind to places it shouldnt go.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)He can't even pretend to be a gracious human being.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Former president or presidential candidate, perhaps.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Not the 'thumbs up' at a funeral nor the perpetual scowl and manspreading as if he's perched on the toilet (the throne) or the inability to stand still without rocking or fidgeting like a 3-year old.
None. Of. This. Is. Normal.
And the media pretending that he was under control does not make it so. Anything short of mooning the congregation is considered a reasonable success. It's not; it wasn't.
The man is a walking disaster and until he's gone the country is under a national security threat.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)I think I would take it as well meanong gesture, if it weren't from a cretin like tRump.
The Bush's have a lot more class and sense of honor then I do. After what tRump said about their father and Jeb and Dubya, I would never have invited him to the funeral. However it was the correct thing to for the office and the country.
Denzil_DC
(7,255 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,255 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)good? Monsters=BFEE.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Shameful, deplorable behavior.
JDC
(10,130 posts)He is garbage
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)She is a good liberal, and hates Individual 1.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,158 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)They have no fucking class, no sense of decorum, no understanding of protocol.
Demonaut
(8,924 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)And he has no clue that no one will ever mourn him.
Cha
(297,524 posts)is stuck in that position.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)IT IS SO FUCKING STUPID