I am all for Dump delivering a "eulogy" right after Clinton does...

[PCIntern]

The contrast would be delightful to watch and the cameras could pan towards the faces of the family of the deceased.

[IADEMO2004]

1. Bush Family could tell Trump No Thank You stay away

Edit to add: Again Trump not at Barbara Bush service.

[lapfog_1]

2. something tells me that trump will be on a foreign visit during the funeral

last minute decision, Pence will fill in for him

[no_hypocrisy]

4. He'll be golfing.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. To be fair, sitting Presidents don't usually attend former first lady funerals. nt

[empedocles]

3. trump is capable of pissing on the grave

[onethatcares]

6. only

if a gold layered commode is trucked in for him to sit on.

[Xipe Totec]

7. The Bush family requests the honor of your absence... nt

[safeinOhio]

8. After both Obama and Clinton n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I doubt he will speak at all.

But I still believe he will be there, but fuming because yet another whole week of a news cycle has just been taken away from him.

They will have to get one of the AF1 planes over to TX and do the loading ceremony @ the *George Bush* (IAH) airport in Houston, and then the arrival ceremony at Joint Base Andrews and then motorcade to the Capitol and the lying in state and probably a service at the National Cathedral (since he was Episcopal).... ALL next week. Plus there is customarily a Federal holiday declared as part of this. The last one was 2006 with Gerald Ford (and Ford had only been Prez for like 2 years).

You get the picture...

[The Genealogist]

10. If he were to speak

it would be all about him, and his favorite crackpot premise de jure.

If he had a shred of decency (which he doesn't),he'd stay away and let the Bush family grieve the loss of father and mother within months. I'm no fan of that family, but they do deserve better than having His Highness use the occasion to fluff his ego.

[PCIntern]

11. I was, of course,

Being facetious