Donald Trump to host funeral for brother Robert Trump at White House

[left-of-center2012]

Source: ABC

President Donald Trump will have family and friends join him Friday at the White House for a funeral service for his brother, Robert Trump, who died last Friday. Robert Trump's body will also be driven to the White House from New York for the ceremony, according to sources familiar with the arrangements, which are expected to remain private.

The last time a deceased body was brought to the White House was for the funeral services of President John F. Kennedy after he was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963.

The last time that remains were brought to the White House for a funeral there for a private citizen was in 1936 for Louis Howe, an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

The Trump family has invited 200 people to attend the services though it's unclear how many plan to attend. The service is expected to be held in the East Room of the White House and a source familiar with the arrangements told ABC News any costs would be covered by the president personally.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-host-funeral-brother-robert-trump-white/story?id=72484552&cid=clicksource_4380645_7_film_strip_icymi_hed

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I never heard of anyone 'hosting' a funeral.
I guess it's all about 'the Donald'.

[Pachamama]

1. Is Mary Trump invited?

She could tell the story about the mashed potatoes....

“When Freddy, at fourteen, dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on his then-seven-year-old brother’s head, it wounded Donald’s pride so deeply that he’d still be bothered by it when Maryanne brought it up in her toast at the White House birthday dinner in 2017. The incident wasn’t a big deal—or it shouldn’t have been. Donald had been tormenting Robert, again, and nobody could get him to stop. Even at seven, he felt no need to listen to his mother, who, having failed to heal the rift between them after her illness, he treated with contempt. Finally, Robert’s crying and Donald’s needling became too much, and in a moment of improvised expedience that would become family legend, Freddy picked up the first thing at hand that wouldn’t cause any real damage: the bowl of mashed potatoes. Everybody laughed, and they couldn’t stop laughing. And they were laughing at Donald. It was the first time Donald had been humiliated by someone he even then believed to be beneath him.”

[barbtries]

35. i wonder if they'll be serving

junk food.
Also how much they'll hear about Robert as opposed to his brother.
I seriously doubt that Mary Trump will be there, and expect that she will have a more emotionally satisfied ceremony elsewhere. I'm reading her book right now.

[LiberalLovinLug]

53. Only the best for my bro

[Wicked Blue]

37. President Potato Head

sounds like a perfect trigger to set off an explosive twitshitstorm!

[NCDem47]

2. Trump wants to be the child at every christening.

The bride at every wedding.

The corpse at every funeral.

[Scarsdale]

38. I second the third one!

Did Maleria finish redoing the Rose Garden, so a mausoleum for the tRump family can be built there?

[Freethinker65]

3. I want to see the cancelled checks

[SierraPinecone]

16. I'm with you on that

[LeftofObama]

4. "any costs would be covered by the president personally."

[nykym]

18. That from a sub human that is known to

skip out on paying for anything.

[niyad]

33. Meaning he is personally going to steal the money from us, probably under "remodeling costs".

[underpants]

5. Boy, no better way to kick off a campaign

Are the same people who thought this was a good idea the same people getting ready for their convention?

[Scarsdale]

39. Great theme for the convention for the gop

"If you are not indicted, you are not invited"

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. "any costs would be covered by the president personally."

[George II]

7. At the end of the festivities, will he say, "Robert, you're fired"??

[DFW]

44. Only if there is a cremation

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

[George II]

46. Did I mix up a couple of letters? Fired vs. Fried?

[DFW]

50. Nope. Fired was enough to run with. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

8. Because Trump is lazy and self-centered

The family has to come to him. What an asshole.

[forgotmylogin]

15. Also better optics control.

Donald doesn't want to go out in public and be photographed grieving (or not).

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

56. Trump couldn't find a tear gas and rubber bullet honor guard so he could use a church.

Who wants to bet he turns his eulogy into a rally speech? And that he refers to himself more times that he does Robert?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Non-governmental non-employee funeral at the White House?

This is just so inappropriate.

[Dios Mio]

24. Yep.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Our White House being used as a funeral parlor

Maybe Trump is trying to tell us something. That's democracy on the slab.

[Blue Owl]

10. The table of cold Big Macs will be a nice touch

n/t

[DonaldsRump]

11. I prefer brothers that DON'T die

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a la what Trump said about PoW John McCain.

(said with tongue firmly in my cheek, as opposed to Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey, whose tongues are firmly on Trumputin's cheeks of the other kind)

[TruckFump]

12. For Trump's funeral I would host one hell of a party.

But...that is a whole different story.

[PaulRevere08]

13. Who will show more emotion - the stiff standing or the stiff in the box?

What a creepy photo-op.

[DonaldsRump]

14. I cannot believe that the White House is being defiled by the Trump family

When I think that JFK was the last body to be at the White House, there is NO WAY that this is appropriate. Think of Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Ford. Not one of them had this honor when they passed away, and neither did their spouses or their children.

But Trump's brother???? Are you kidding me???

Do it at your rat-infested Mar-a-Lago, but not at OUR HOUSE.

[Lock him up.]

27. oRange viRu$$ia thinks he's head of a Royal family

RICO the tRump MOB

[randr]

17. Tax dollars at work for the grifter family

[Mike 03]

19. This will be macabre. Will Trump give a eulogy? Do you think

he'll remember to mention Robert Trump?

[Mike 03]

20. Robert Trump is the only Trump that's going to lie

in state in Washington D.C.

I think when Trump passes, they should just stick his body on the golf course at Mar-A-Lago.

[dalton99a]

49. Throw it in the trash

[Bernardo de La Paz]

55. I don't think his funeral service at WH qualifies as any kind of "lying in state"

... nor do I think anyone is claiming that it is.

[Xipe Totec]

21. Reminded me of "That Time Santa Anna Held a Funeral for His Amputated Leg"

During the battle, his leg was hit by French canon fire. The wound was so serious that the Mexican doctors ended up having to amputate his leg. With their general out of commission, the Mexicans payed war reparations to the French in exchange for the French pulling their troops out of Mexico.

Apparently, Santa Anna was very fond of his leg. Four years after the battle of Vera Cruz was over, in one of the most diva-like moments of his life, he had his leg dug up and reburied with full military honors. The funeral included cannon salvos, lengthy speeches, reverent prayers, and beautiful poetry recited in the general’s honor. The leg itself was put into a crystal vase and buried beneath a huge, costly, ridiculously elaborate monument in the Santa Paula cemetery.


https://historythings.com/time-santa-anna-held-funeral-amputated-leg/

[dalton99a]

48. +1

[iluvtennis]

22. THis is UNACCEPTABLE. But the senate with their not guilty impeachment verdict gave him carte

blance to do whatever the hell he wants to do without consequences.

It's nothing but a publicity stunt that we ate taxpayers are paying for.

[Thekaspervote]

23. It is just about him, nothing else!!

[Kali]

25. "we" really should stop feeding the troll

he would die if we stopped paying attention to him. the ONLY attention he should get are investigations and trials.

[Maribelle]

28. Will Fox-news be covering the event live?

Or maybe One America News?

Nothing like using your brother's death to get free coverage. And just think of the sympathy votes it will bring in.

[secondwind]

29. It's about YOU AND ME PICKING UP THE TAB. that is all this is.

[Wicked Blue]

31. Good point! nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

57. The White House has stated that tRump will pay all expenses personally. . . . nt

[SeattleVet]

67. But then, on the other hand...

we have to remember that the White House has said a LOT of shit over the past 4 years that turned out to be blatant lies.

As one of their dead and rotting heroes once said, "Trust, but verify." Needy Amin's supporters seem to have forgotten the last two words of that phrase when it comes to anything he says.

[Wicked Blue]

30. Anything for ATTENTION

Not because he cares about his brother or anyone except himself. His brother's death gives him an excuse to grab the spotlight AND have a pity party.

I would bet one of his motives is to try one-upping Joe Biden's heartbreaking losses of wife, baby daughter and eldest son.

What could be more convenient than a brother's death to try saying, "See everyone, I too have lost close family members and suffered more, I have GREATLY suffered and I will host the GREATEST, most BEAUTIFUL White House funeral the world has ever seen to show everyone that I am COMPASSIONATE and SUFFERING. Let Biden try and top THIS."

[Javaman]

32. is he going to arrive at the WH in a golden carriage with...

the coffin dragging behind it?

you know, because all the orange asshole cares about is how is dead brother was so proud of him.

[Bayard]

34. Going for the--I'm grieving--vote

Trying to compete with the genuine and heart-felt grief of Joe Biden losing his family.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. He will use it as a tax-payer funded event and make it about himself somehow.

[ancianita]

40. Mary Trump says donnie was a bully toward his brother his whole life, and showed his father's same

contempt toward him.

This is all a show.

[rurallib]

41. He can get it done early enough he can still get to Bedminster and get 9 holes in

before sundown.

Saturday and Sunday he will be preparing for HIS convention with 18 holes each day.

[relayerbob]

42. I wonder what 45's profit margin will be

[llashram]

43. "any costs covered by the president"

trump will figure out how to make us pay the costs and his grifter family will figure out how to make money from that

[Doug.Goodall]

45. Combine he funeral with his acceptance speach and save a buck or two.

[dalton99a]

47. I want to see proof of "any costs would be covered by the president personally"

[turbinetree]

51. Okay I will ask............. is there a parking fee and price for seats.........

you know the closer to the front and center the higher the price so that traitor can make a buck of this.............wasn't his brother also involved in the 400 million tax scam in New York........

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nyt-investigation-unearths-new-details-about-trumps-early-millions


Susanne Craig:

They then passed — they passed some of that burden on to their — to their tenants. And that sort of goes into things, including wire fraud, according to the people that we have talked to.

And then there was other things that they did with their father's estate that both border on tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax fraud. And in one instance, just a simple example, Donald Trump has been — his siblings, Robert Trump and Maryanne Barry Trump, they signed off on their father's estate.

And in doing so, they had to verify the accuracy of all the gift returns that were submitted. Some of those had things, like they did — the gifts they knew that they had gotten from All County, they didn't disclose them. And so that becomes again another potential crime that they committed.

[left-of-center2012]

68. No, but ...

Jared and Ivanka will have the popcorn stand,
and Melania will be selling "Be Best" souvenirs.

[turbinetree]

69. Good one...................

[jayfish]

52. A Quick Thought.

Did Robert ever visit the White House while he was still alive? I don't think he ever did. So the thought is if Trump was so tight with his bro, why had he never been invited to the WH? I mean even just for DT to gloat a bit and rub it in his face. ...something "close" brothers might do to each other. Points to more BS Trumpian theater IMO.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

54. Has tRump given any eulogy at any funeral while president?

[matt819]

58. Has this ever been done before? (nt)

[Yavin4]

59. Does Trump's cut of the family inheritance go up?

I think he gets Robert's cut.

[IrishEyes]

60. Robert Trump had a son that he adopted when he was married to his first wife.

He also was married to his second wife at the time of his death. Hopefully he had a will so his money would go to his son and wife. Of course, It is possible that Robert Trump did not have a lot money or was in debt when he died. It is also possible that if Robert had money, Trump will try to get some of it.

[Yavin4]

62. "Adopted" doesn't count.

Trump will probably sue in court.

[IrishEyes]

64. I hate when anyone believes that adopted children don't count.

It is such an insult to all of the amazing families who have adopted children in them.

Of course, only jerks like Trump would believe such a thing.

[Yavin4]

66. I meant in Trump's world.

Mary Trump didn't count in his world.

[Evolve Dammit]

61. BYOB

[McKim]

63. This is How Royalty Behaves!

This is how royalty behaves, this isn’t Europe or Latin America. This is just to create a spectacle for the news media!

[Vinca]

65. Hey - any opportunity for a campaign event.

He'll give the eulogy and talk about himself, just as he did at his father's funeral.