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August 31st<\/sup> 2018\"mcains<\/i><\/p>\n

They buried John McCain and Aretha Franklin today. Both had Presidents in attendance (Bill Clinton at Franklin\u2019s and he and all the other retired Presidents at McCain\u2019s) and both were free of Trumps. Both ceremonies were on the telly in the background and I didn\u2019t pay deep attention. I don\u2019t intend to eulogise either of them here, not out of disrespect, but simply because I have nothing to add that hasn\u2019t been said thousands of times over the past week. I\u2019ll simply note that 250 years from now, should we survive, every historian will know who McCain was, and every music lover will know who Franklin was.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to sound churlish\u2014McCain had hundreds of very important people who said very important things about him, but I can\u2019t help but think that the praises heaped on him, and the expositions of his importance to the country, were a bit more effusive and ebullient then they actually needed to be. It\u2019s almost as if they were rubbing it in, somehow.<\/p>\n

Well, the headline over a David Smith article at the Guardian let the cat out of the bag: Trump sits alone ‘sulking’ as Washington pays its respects to John McCain.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ah, poor widdle Donnie needs his nappie changed! His behavior towards McCain has always been churlish\u2014really churlish, and not just me trying to avoid sounding that way. Trump is a man whose soul resides where the sewer rats won\u2019t go, but he hit new personal lows in his response to McCain\u2019s death this week. That stunt of ordering the flags back to full mast the day after McCain died\u2026<\/p>\n

One of the Weasels noted that McCain\u2019s family missed a bet. They should have invited Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n

Vice President Pence, who always looks like Leslie Nielsen with severe constipation, spoke at the McCain ceremony, and I believe he was the only one who uttered the words \u201cPresident Trump.\u201d The pained, sullen silence that greeted his invocation of the Glorious Leader must have seemed very strange to him: he\u2019s used to watching cabinet members cheer, stomp and hoot every time Trump\u2019s name is mentioned. Maybe he went home afterward, dropped to his knees, and said, \u201cJesus, you gots some \u2018splaining to do…\u201d<\/p>\n

Aretha\u2019s funeral was a happier, more boisterous affair. The eulogies were cheery, heartfelt, loving and often funny. But the most amazing tribute was one played by a small and rather unremarkable marching band some five time zones east. The Buckingham Palace Guard, in their traditional Changing of the Guard ceremony, played \u201cR-E-S-P-E-C-T.\u201d It was unthinkable, and couldn\u2019t have been done without the Queen\u2019s knowledge and consent.<\/p>\n

At McCain\u2019s funeral, people showed respect. At Franklin\u2019s, they sang it.<\/p>\n

Trump knew of Franklin\u2019s death, of course, tweeting that she had worked for him on several occasions. Even by Trump standards, it was a weird response. Imagine Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry tweeting, \u201cStephen Hawking? Oh, I had him on my show once!\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure Trump actually knew who Franklin was, though. Otherwise he might have tweeted something like \u201cImagine how great quality a singer if she had been white!\u201d Yes, I know some of you are wincing, but admit it: you could see Trump coming up with something like that. Nobody else. Just Trump.<\/p>\n

Glioblastoma, one of the most loathsome forms of cancer around, caused McCain\u2019s death, and played a role in his funeral. His death came nine years to the day after Ted Kennedy died of the same disease, and one of the eulogies was delivered by Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of the disease at age 46.<\/p>\n

The funerals are over now, and Trump can stop pretending he\u2019s concentrating on his golf game and continue preparing for the burial of his presidency. It\u2019s Friday, and the Office of the Special Counsel (note spelling, Donny!) often has new announcement and new indictments on a Friday. There\u2019s an unofficial courtesy in Washington that legal attacks on a campaign should not occur after Labor Day, but of course, Trump himself isn\u2019t running for office this year.<\/p>\n

So now he can have the flag put back up to full staff, and hopefully, as he does so, he can study the flag and learn which colors go where in case he ever has to crayon another flag. (Hint, Donnie: none of the stripes are blue. Not on the American flag, anyway. Your flag probably does have a blue stripe.)<\/p>\n

So Trump can stop worrying about those greedy, selfish people who keep upstaging him by dying. Hopefully there won\u2019t be any others for a while.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Trump can draw solace in the knowledge that his own funeral is one of the most highly-anticipated events of the century.<\/p>\n

The downside: it will be the lightest attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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