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I think we have a weener(mobile)!
I found this page with a very thorough description of what happens and who does what for a presidential funeral, including this (my bold):
Footnote 6 from the end of that paragraph points to this congressional resolution, titled:
S.Con.Res.115 - A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying in state of the remains of the late Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States.
So congress had to act to allow Ronald Reagan to lie in state in the rotunda. It sounds like congress has the option to not do so for any other president.
Okay, but immediately preceding that is a paragraph which references those who are “entitled to” a state funeral; and your excerpt says the (current) president directs Congress that a state funeral will be conducted, not that a president requests that a funeral should be conducted.
So I think their resolution is effectively pro forma, but it would be interesting if they pulled the “yes but what if we don’t” tactic.
How about a Rotunda*-based My Pillow Funeral Pyre. Seems like we haven’t had one of those in far too long.
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*Trump would definitely be putting the “rotund” in “rotunda”
I was going to do a “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d” parody but honestly, I can’t do that to Walt Whitman.
I’ll point out that “lying in state in the rotunda” != “state funeral” which includes a whole lot more than that, and doesn’t have to include “rotundage”.
Frank Jacobs’ version of “O Captain! My Captain!” seems appropriate for Trump:
O Captain! My Captain! our graft has run its course;
I hear the new Commissioner is shaking up the force….
Heh. The Trumpalooza Funeral Tour I predict will set out with high hopes for the grift but will end halfway through with dwindling ticket sales and eventual bakruptcy.
next to Ivana at the golf course. Only his kids will attend. EXCLUSIVE: Ivana Trump's cordoned-off grave is barely visible in completely overgrown area of Trump's 506-acre Bedminster New Jersey golf course | Daily Mail Online
I predict any funeral involving that corpulent critter will include rotundage.
Whether he lies in the Capitol Rotunda is a different issue.
More seriously, I agree with you that Presidents may decree a state funeral will be conducted for [whoever]. Which funeral will, or won’t, include the use of the Capitol Rotunda at the sole discretion of Congress.
In one sense I’d like to see the bastard live long enough that his crimes are well recognized on both sides of the aisle and Congress votes nearly unanimously against. On the other hand, sooner is always better when disposing of a toxic dumpster fire problem.
Bankruptcy is not a problem as long as the money collected up until then is safely tucked away in an offshore account.
I can’t see it happening in D.C., though. It’s the shithole political town that Trump claims to hate. And as others have stated, it wouldn’t be suitable for the ultimate grift, which will outweigh any “honor” in his survivors’ minds.
He only went to G. H. W. Bush’s funeral because it happened before he realized that he didn’t really have to do traditional stuff he didn’t want to. And he wasn’t invited to Barbara’s or John McCain’s funeral. And that suited him just fine. I don’t imagine that any surviving president (as of now) will attend Trump’s and he certainly won’t be invited or care to go to theirs. He will never, ever be “one of the gang” of ex-presidents.
His funeral will be unprecedented (god, I’ve come to hate that word) just as everything else about his presidency is. And gold-colored tacky, can’ forget that.
Of course, if he is re-elected and dies in office, all bets are off. I don’t even want to think about that.
He lies no matter what state he’s in.
My gawd, what is going to be there? One Fish, Two Fish? A complete set of EC comics? What You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask) [Trump’s personal copy]? A complete set of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues?
As I remember, he was specifically told that he was not wanted at John McCain’s funeral.
Nah. Just issue respirator masks to anyone who uses the passphrase: I’ve come to pee my respects. let the MAGATs marinate in the stench of the respect to which he was entitled.
That’s probably because FDR hadn’t wanted a state funeral or any big event at all, just a simple burial with a graveside service, attended by family and close friends.
He hadn’t even shared that with them, and the plans, in writing, were found a few weeks after his death.
I’ve heard in recent months that Lauren Boebert and MTG are both “free.” Weirder things have happened, I guess.
“Ambergris of Trump”
If I lie in state
Will your righteous hate
Felt throughout the States
Help to seal my fate?
As a potentate
I was not so great
Have you had of late
Thoughts to immolate?
I whitewashed my weight
Like I did when I’d date
I’m in a corpulent state
The flames would never abate
How about Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”?
That the band is a quartet of black men would be even more apropos.