You just know that they’re going to be hawking commemorative videos of the ceremony for $79.95 on Home Shopping Network, er, Fox News.
After a great national sigh of relief, a memorial tweet will be issued on Twitter (the same location where future generations will find Trump’s presidential library) in lieu of an expensive and lengthy national memorial service. The flag will fly upside down rather than at half-mast. His official presidential portrait will be modified with the addition of a goofy mustsche, blacked out teeth, and a dunce cap.
Seriously, politicians will not want to offend the half-dozen voters who still think they made the correct decision in voting Trump in, so any official utterances are likely to be correct but not effusive, and will most likely not reflect their personal feelings on the matter.
Maybe the family will make it “invitation only” and then invite just the people they’re sure will attend, i.e. each other. 
I guess they could pay some people to attend.
That makes me want to ask the question: how much cash money (paid in advance) would it take to get you to attend The Donald’s Funeral*? (And yes, you have to wear appropriate funeral attire, including pants. And not printed pajama pants either.)
- By “in advance,” I mean a few days/hours before the funeral. Not, say, tomorrow.
Something in between a private family funeral and being strung up a gas station like Mussolini.
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Oh yeah. And there will be a separate ceremony for his hair, sponsored by “Hair Club for Men.”
Paid in advance? Enough to buy a frilly black dress, platinum wig, and a pair of ridiculous kinky boots (in black, of course.) And add in enough to hire a few professional drag queens to make me up the way they do on stage. I’ve got broad enough shoulders to get away with it. Muah ha ha ha haaaaa!
Not a conservative. Just so disgusted with liberals rehabilitating psychopaths such as McCain, both Bushes, and Kissinger. All these people pushed policies that caused harm to millions of people both domestically and abroad and no one cares. It’s weird that the media has no problem declaring that a minority “was no angel” when unjustly shot down by police, but heaven forbid we discuss the negative aspects of the lives of public figures in their passing because “we don’t want to speak ill of the dead.” Maybe it’s a class thing. The only difference between Trump and typical Republican presidents in the past few decades is that Trump has no sense of subtlety. I’m starting to wonder if liberals have any moral framework or if it is all aesthetics.
I mean it happens with the left too, Obama went from simply being a center-right continuation of Bush’s broken policies to now “No Scandal Obama” in just 4 short years.
Maybe someone else named Alex Jones, not, ahem, that one.
Wanna read something REALLY disturbing? One of my FBFs had a baby over the weekend, and someone wrote on her wall something to the effect of, “Congratulations on giving birth to another Republican!” :eek: I replied, “Let’s not go there.”
I did know that she and her family leaned conservative; she’s also a schoolteacher who is not planning to return to work, which I have a feeling may be a good thing even though what she’s taught isn’t political in any way, and is mostly 2nd through 4th graders. :dubious: Her husband is some kind of building contractor, and they have a hobby farm.
They already did that for Margaret Thatcher. OK, it wasn’t heads of state, but some people did.
I think it’s too early to know what people might say upon his death. If he died in an accident while doing something presidential in the near future, it’d be more somber and people would be nicer out of respect for the office itself.
If he leaves in disgrace and winds up in prison and his corruption is even worse than we can surmise even now, I think there will be a lot of silence and, as has been said before, thoughts and prayers to his family… who might also be in prison.
There are people who are going to be sad, there are people who are going to be glad. It’s how man of each that depends too much on what happens between now and then. Nixon died 20 years, an entire voting-age person, after his scandal, and he did some good things between all the corrupt endeavors. Can Trump hang on twenty more years and do some actual good? Very unlikely. Can he out corrupt Nixon? Very likely. But if Nixon had died in '82, there might not have been the … glossing over… of his nefarious deeds. The wounds would have been too raw. How old and how raw will our Trump wounds be?
I expect at least one former President will attend, his wife eager for the viewing portion to put a stick of butter in the oversized, gaudy casket.
Speaking for myself, I’m not trying to change anybody’s memories. I certainly don’t want anything to disappear from the history books. But if there is anything good to be said about a person, can we not just stick to that for a few weeks after their death?
I mean, just out of kindness to their family and supporters, can we let folks mourn for a minute before we start tearing their memories to shreds? A few months ago here, it was vitally important that everybody freely and forcefully discuss everything that was wrong with Barbara Bush. Nobody was writing a book or doing any research, but they strenuously objected to the idea that we might speak respectfully about her for a time after her death.
Since then, has any one of them mentioned her? Has it been necessary for her wrongs to be acknowledged in any context?
I didn’t like Barbara, and I didn’t agree with much that “H” did either. But for a few weeks I can settle in with his military service, and the work he did to try to prevent the clusterf***that has taken over the GOP. And I can speak kindly of his service in intelligence and politics, which was heartfelt even if I did find it misguided at times.
I triple dog dare you to put it down on your calendar for three months from now. Start a thread then about “H” and say your piece; but just for now, keep it decent.
As for President Trump, there is very little to be said. He dodged the draft, he cheated his contractors, and consistently failed to follow through upon charitable donations for which he took public credit. He sired several children, but by his own (gleeful!) admission he never raised a finger to care for them or guide them.
I really don’t know what I would come up with if he died. I might be really, really quiet for a while. I’m certain that I can trust you all to remind me to hush when the time comes. 
I would hope that at least one of his predecessors would have the decency to ask that all Trump family members currently imprisoned be furloughed for the day of the funeral.
I guess independents and the demodcrats should then petiton local governments to name garbage dumps, foul swamps and sewage plants after him.
Alternatively, just hold the funeral in the prison chapel.
I hope for their sake, not one had dealings with Donnie Two-scoops.
I’d say impossible. He will go to his grave without so much as dropping a quarter into a Salvation Army kettle.
I wouldn’t call that a lie; that’s probably about as much praise as you can give him without becoming partisan. Much past that, and it pretty much has to be partisan.
Personally, I think it’ll be a fairly strained event; everyone involved will be racking their brains and very circumspect with what they say in efforts to not say ill of him, and the official commemorations, etc… will be the bare minimum as to what they can do for a former President (assuming he leaves office the normal way). If he’s impeached, then I imagine he’ll go the Nixon route without any formal Presidential lying-in-state or anything like that.
There will still be a horde of numb-nuts in red MAGA hats at everything though…
The words “grave” and “urination” come to mind.
The late shock rocker GG Allin’s gravestone had to be removed for exactly this reason; however, he was also known for using the stage as a toilet, so this shouldn’t exactly have been surprising.
*‘We are gathered here today, to pay tribute to Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States. He championed the cause of the United States in international politics, innovated the channels by which presidents communicate with the nation, fostered a renewed engagement with, and passion for, politics on both sides of the isle, and gave voice to the concerns of a segment of the population which believed that progress was passing them by and leaving them behind” *