"The funeral of Fred Trump wasn't about Fred Trump"

[Miles Archer]

Here’s one of the biggest reasons why nobody wants Trump to speak at their memorial service

The reason? He can’t stop talking about himself.

With more than 650 people attending the service at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, Trump followed his three siblings paying tribute to their father by bragging about his own successes.

“When it came time to eulogize his father at the funeral, the focus shifted noticeably,” Blair writes. “He began by saying it was the toughest day of his own life. It was ironic, he said, that he’d learned of his father’s death right after reading a front-page story in the New York Times about the success of one of his own developments, Trump Place. He then enumerated all his other projects and said his father supported each one, and he finished by noting that on everything he’d ever done, Fred had known he would be able to pull it off.”

“The funeral of Fred Trump wasn’t about Fred Trump; it was an opportunity to do some brand burnishing by Donald, for Donald,” she pointedly added. “Throughout his remarks, the first-person singular pronouns—I and me and mine—far outnumbered he and his. Even at his own father’s funeral, Donald Trump couldn’t cede the limelight.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/heres-one-biggest-reasons-nobody-wants-trump-speak-memorial-service/

[lark]

1. Sociopath!

The only one he's ever loved is himself. Even Ivanka is cherished as "his", not because of who she is.

[dalton99a]

2. Every day is Trump Day

Well, fuck that shit

[livetohike]

3. Trump is so vile. No one will speak at his funeral. They'll

all be serving prison terms.

[smirkymonkey]

4. To quote (paraphrase) Alice Longworth Roosevelt

(in describing her father Teddy) "He (Trump) needs to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."

[grantcart]

6. And the defendant in every trial

[Totally Tunsie]

16. +1000

[Quixote1818]

5. This is as repulsive as it gets!

[PatSeg]

7. That sums it up

Everything has to be about Trump and every occasion is viewed as an opportunity.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Even the odious Roy Cohn didn't want him speaking at his funeral.

Before he died, he said about Trump "He pisses ice water".

[PatSeg]

11. No shit, really?

Oh, that is priceless!

[smirkymonkey]

12. Yes. Trump abandoned Cohn as he was dying and turned to other

lawyers instead. Basically cut him off in the last moments of his life. He is a heartless bastard.

[PatSeg]

14. I honestly believe

that there is no one that Trump wouldn't throw under the bus to save his own hide, even his darling daughter. He is like a villain out of a movie, pure evil.

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[NNadir]

10. Fred Trump taught is idiot son how to be an overt racist. It fits. n/t.

[struggle4progress]

13. "People are saying how sad it is that wazziname died. I don't know. But that's what people say.

Sad. Very very sad. But there is good news. I am still alive. And I am doing a good job. That's what people say. Many many people. Fine job. Very fine. Because I am smart! Very smart! Very very smart! And still alive!"

[tanyev]

15. I've always found it odd that we hear so little about his siblings

and that they appear to be relatively normal. Same parents, same upbringing—how did Donald turn out to be so vile? Oh, the psychological analyses that will follow once the dust settles on the Trump presidency.