He’s lucky. They could just as easily been explicit.
Shorter Trump lackey: It’s all about HIM!
Bush’s granddaughters read this verse from Isaiah (60:18) at his funeral, with Pouty Trump in attendance. Am I the only one who thinks that choosing a passage that featured the words “borders” and “walls” was more than a coincidence?
“No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.”
If you praise any president’s good qualities, it will be an automatic reminder of trump’s deficits. Sad.
Interesting!
I am beginning to think it’s impossible not to diss the Orange Orangutan, if you don’t do snivelling, grovelling sycophancy like those around him (who are probably anyhow also laughing at him behind his back).
Any mention of truth can easily be seen as a disrespectful from trumpski’s point of view. The dude has spent so much of his life lying that truth as a concept pisses him off.
ETA: We need to keep this in historical perspective and wait until we can compare the eulogies delivered at the funeral of DOTUS.
George W also dissed trump during his eulogy when he talked about his dad driving his boat “Fidelity”. W emphasized “Fidelity” with a snarky raised eyebrow.
Fat Nixon sat in attendance like a petulant child. Plus, he didn’t pray… Evangelicals, please take note.
Eh, I don’t know. If you simply stand behind a casket and say “This was a decent human being,” it could be taken as an implicit dis. So could almost any compliment. And you get a fair bit of that at funerals. So if “implicit” here means “deliberate but veiled,” I doubt it, because a careful writer might hesitate to bring Trump into a funeral oration, for fear of diminishing the occasion’s dignity. Bad enough he was there in the first place.
I guess any comment about Bush being a man of service, loyalty and honor, or about being a man who when young chose to go into harms way for his country is an implicit dis of Trump, but that would require you to think about Trump, something no one except his bootlickers like Avion would have chosen to do yesterday.
Not to excuse dotard’s lack of military service but Viet Nam was not about “going into harms way for his country”. I enlisted as dotard was evading and it took going to Viet Nam for me to see that that war of choice was not about protecting America or any of the other John Birch bullshit I had fallen under the spell of. Wars of choice are more often waged for hubristic or capitalistic reasons and have nothing to do with service to your country.
DOTUS…
I like that, consider it stolen…
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I was struck by the seating arrangement. They put Trump at the very end of the row. Now maybe this was for security read, but I would perhaps have expected the current President to be seated front and center. And they sat them next to the classy Obamas, which was a smart move. Because I wouldn’t have blamed Hillary one bit if she’s taken a swing at that jackass.
They put them in chronological order, didn’t they? Trump - Obama - Clinton - Carter. (With Bush Jr sitting with his family, which makes sense.) At Reagan’s funeral in 2004 W. was on the aisle, then Cheney, then Clinton, and behind him Bush Sr, Carter and Ford. Seems just to be the standard order.
They knew he would be making a late arrival for the grand entrance and probably suspected he might get up and wander off before the ceremony was over. I was so disappointed that when Trump reached out to shake Obama’s hand that O didn’t extend his hand and then smooth is hair instead of shaking Trump’s.
The snickering will be awesome.
I wanted O to offer his hand, and then pull it back and say “Psyche!”
Fake news! One doesn’t pray when one is one’s own deity! It would be like talking to yourself.