President Trump Orders High Honor for Barbara Bush After Her Death – ‘As a Mark of Respect’
This is what class looks like.
When she died on Tuesday, former first lady Barbara Bush was the matriarch of one of the most powerful political dynasties the country has ever seen, and one that had deep personal and political differences with President Donald Trump.
But in the face of the great equalizer of death, the president put political differences aside.
In a statement released shortly after Bush’s death was announced, Trump ordered flags to be flown at half staff at all federal buildings, military posts, Navy ships and embassies abroad until sunset the day of Bush’s burial.
“On this solemn day we mourn the loss of Barbara Bush, an outstanding and memorable woman of character,” the statement read. “As a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, military spouse, and former First Lady, Mrs. Bush was an advocate of the American family.”
“Mrs. Bush lived a life that reminds us always to cherish our relationships with friends, family, and all acquaintances. In the spirit of the memory of Mrs. Bush, may we always remember to be kind to one another and to put the care of others first.”
First lady Melania Trump issued her own statement on the death of her in the White House, and made sure to mention the Bush family — and Barbara Bush’s inherent patriotism.
“Our hearts are with the Bush family as we celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Barbara Bush. Throughout her life, she put family and country above all else. Her dedicated service to the American people was matched only by her compassion and love of family. She was a woman of strength and we will always remember her for her most important roles of wife, mother, and First Lady of the United States. My heartfelt condolences and prayers are with the Bush family as we honor her legacy.”
Do you support Trump's order honoring of Barbara Bush's death?
That’s how adults handle matters like this.
No one has forgotten the battles of 2016, when Donald Trump tangled with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, among others, for the Republican nomination. It was a bitter fight, and Barbara Bush was on her son’s side with her usual strength of character.
(Expect the liberal media to make a lot of her 2016 quote about Trump: “I don’t know how women could vote for someone who said what he said about Megyn Kelly.”)
But beyond politics, Barbara Bush was a popular figure. The rest of the country cheered along with the crowd at Houston’s NRG Stadium when she and former President George H.W. Bush performed the coin toss before Super Bowl LI in 2017.
Trump’s order isn’t unheard of, but it is rare. As an NBC report from 2016 on the death of Nancy Reagan noted, there is no strict protocol for a former first lady’s funeral arrangement, and flags at half staff are not the rule at all:
RELATED: George HW Bush Releases Incredibly Moving First Statement After Wife’s Death
“It apparently wasn’t done for Betty Ford, who died in 2011, according to an NBC News review of presidential proclamations. It was done for Lady Bird Johnson in 2007, but not for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994 or Pat Nixon in 1993. (Onassis and Nixon did get 30-day mourning periods at the White house, though.)”
So Trump wasn’t obligated by either law or custom to go the extra step and order the nation’s flags lowered in honor of a woman best known as the matriarch of a rival political family. But he extended the honor anyway.
And while liberals disgraced themselves yet again by a social media storm attacking a tiny inconsequential typo in the original White House statement announcing Bush’s death — as documented approvingly by the liberal Huffington Post — the Trump order showed that even in 2018, political differences can take a second place to acknowledging a rival’s patriotism.
In short, it’s what maturity, and class, look like.
Liberals could take a lesson. https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-high-honor-barbara-bush/
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But in the face of the great equalizer of death, the president put political differences aside.
Not enough to choose a golf weekend over attending her funeral.
His hatred of the Bushes knows no bounds. His token gestures of playing the 'good guy' are laughable, and embarrassing as well. He should do the right thing and suck it up and attend the funeral like a decent President of this nation, to honor and respect one of America's First Lady's. But, he can't do that, as it would not be all about him and he can't stand that. So honor and respect be damned.
First, his presence would taint the funeral, better that he stay away. Second, he is not a decent president of this nation.
If he were to attend my funeral, I would crawl out of the casket and walk away.
While it might not be the most pleasant thing to see him there as a person, he is the President of the US, and as such, he should maintain some modicum of respect of the office he holds. It is the right thing to do to show respect for a former First Lady. He would expect nothing less if it were his own First Lady who had passed on. But, as you said.......he is NOT a decent President of this nation. He is not even a decent human being.
Stop pasting bits of your articles as if they are your comments. Use your words, HA, use your words.
Ah c'mon, Pat. Don't make it so hard for him.
"In short, it’s what maturity, and class, look like.”
If Trump is what maturity and class looks like, I'll be happy to pass on both.
Yet while Mr. Trump ordered federal facilities to fly the flag at half mast for Barbara Bush, Mar A Lago,
the Southern White House did not lower it's giant American flag. So much for respecting Mrs. Bush.
And just a note that my small city in TX has all of the flags, PD, FD, Courts and parks at half mast, as they should be.
Then we are fucked AF. (smile)
Off topic [ph]
Indeed!! (grin)
Skirting the CoC [ph]
I suppose having tax payers paying me to play golf all day every day and making stupid decisions would be a good enough reason to run for president. But only if I get to keep all of those South African Krugerrands like Trump did.
Get over it.
When you have time, read the article. Usually, living former presidents and first ladies and a representative of the current POTUS go to the funerals of former first ladies.
It's astounding that people are so whiny about Trump not going but never said a word about other in-office presidents not going to former first ladies' funerals that date back to Reagan's time in office.
No worries, Texan.
Yes, it is. That's why you and I both posted the same article for them. I just had to correct someone who was bitching about how disrespectful it is that Mar a Lago's flag isn't at half staff. See comment 4.1.14 .
Have a great weekend!
No, although both "sides" behave similarly ( usually badly ) - the protocol is for the First Lady to attend, not a sitting POTUS.
I was agreeing with you.
High honor? He isn't even going to her funeral. He might as well piss on this poor woman's grave, (or hire it out, I hear he is good at finding people to pee for him).
Let's be honest, Barbara Bush loathed Donald Trump. It would not honor her memory for him to attend...
She may have been a rock ribbed Republican but she'd be honored by the Carters, Clintons and Obamas.
The Bushs did not vote for Trump and considering what he said about Jeb I expect GWB would sock him...
It's so sad that for even one day the liberals can't stop their hatred to show the slightest bit of respect. It's no wonder Trump never drops in his approval rating when people see how unhinged his haters are.
Other presidents were able to make it to the funeral so, what was Trumps problem with going? He couldn't even be bothered to contact Mar A Lago and, tell them to lower the flag there to half staff for a day.
Because you know damn well there would have been allot of dumbass butt hurt liberals that would have been there "protesting" something or other and raising all kinds of hell and disrupting the service.
Oh we're you this upset when Obama did not attend Nancy Reagan's services?
Yes, I was. But, I'm more upset at Trump for not putting his flagship resort in Florida's flag at half staff.
I'm glad he didn't go. Trump should not attend any funerals, his presence does nothing but disgrace everyone around him.
You're right of course, we have to remember his attitude over the soldier who died in Africa and, the way he treated the widow.
What did he do? Go up to her and lie to her face about why her husband died and how some innocent film maker is going to pay for his death like someone did to family members of 4 slaughtered US citizens?
Trumpster spin justifying the comb over in chief skipping Barb's funeral is hilarious. I hope the networks covering the funeral insert a live feed of trump on the golf course during their coverage.
what was Obama's excuse for not attending Nancy Reagan's funeral?
South by Southwest.
can’t miss a good party for Nancy Reagan’s funeral.
I wouldn't be surprised if Barbara disinvited Trump from the grave.
"You're right of course, we have to remember his attitude over the soldier who died in Africa and, the way he treated the widow."
You mean personally calling to express his condolences while he was being set up by a Democrat opportunist representative? No wonder Trump is cautious about death and funerals. He knows the left will shamelessly exploit anything.
I'm sure you'll agree that doing some research before posting an untruth is always wise. This will help your post from yesterday morning (4/20/2018) . Notice the date of the Time article:
You're welcome.
Just say no.
You're welcome. I hope you have a good weekend.
You're comments are funny.
I think he could have cancelled this one but, ya never know.
Nah! He could cancel it. It was a fund raiser and a campaign stop. Those had priority over everything for Obama. A First Lady's funeral or American diplomats being slaughtered in Libya always took a backseat to fund raising.
This part of your post is disingenuous at best, it is down right slanderous at worst. As far as the rest of your post according to what I have seen in the news posted today, it isn't surprising that a sitting president doesn't attend a first lady's funeral, however, with the tensions between the Trumps and, the Bush's it does leave people to speculate about the reasons behind Trump not attending. All of this being said, it is a fact that the last president to attend a first lady's funeral was John Kennedy. The question since you posed it, in a sense, is what was Donald Trump doing during the funeral? Was he fund raising as Obama was doing? Was he playing golf? What was he doing?
No that is not the question I am losing. I don't really care what either of them was doing. I only mentioned it because you introduced it as some sort of excuse for Obama not attending. You and your compatriots are all up in arms and criticize Trump for not attending yet thought nothing about Obama skipping out of Nancy Reagans service.
It is not what either of them were doing on those days but rather your phony outrage and criticism that I am bringing out.
Truth hurts don't it?
You seem to miss the point here, so, I will spell it out for you, slander is a lie told by someone about someone else, you lied or, repeated a lie about Obama preferring fund raising to going to the funeral of someone he respected. Now, if you tell that kind of lie about Obama you must then tell it of every president who has had a first lady die during their time in office except for one president, in fact the last president to attend a first lady's funeral was John Kennedy.
I missed nothing. You thought that you could diss trump for not attending the funeral and are now pissed that you were shown to be hypocritical about it. You want to be able to criticize those you disagree with and dislike with impunity but feel completely different about those who criticize your messiah.
Totally disgraceful what some of you are saying about Mrs. Bush. From the negative comments it isn't difficult to have expected it from those people. So, lesson learned. Do not respond to anything on any subject they participate in. Bringing in Pres. Trump's remarks and stomping on them is low class. Comment removed for CoC violation [ph]
When your day is done are you pleased?
Yup, there are certain discussions that are beneath us and we do know what to expect from certain individuals
I've learned that the easiest thing to do is post facts that will debunk their endless lies. I've already done this to the whiners on this seed who said that (1) it's appalling that Trump won't be at Barbara Bush's funeral and (2) the American flag at Mar a Lago isn't at half staff. By using two left-wing sites, I set the Trump-haters straight on both counts.
IMO you shouldn't have. DNFTT? It isn't left wing principles or beliefs that disgust me. It is the people who purport to represent those beliefs and principles that bring forth an inner darkness.
A good woman does not deserve to have her passing used as a political battleground.
Perhaps you can point out where anyone used the present tense when indicating that Mar A Lago failed to lower the flag at the appropriate time.
The President's "Southern White House" should not need to be shamed ( by social media ) into doing what every other state, local municipality and millions of Americans did automatically
with or without the Presidents order which did not just cover federal buildings...
Agreed.
They've repeatedly made their inner darkness evident.
As we've seen, there are people who seemingly have a manic compulsion to turn everything, even a funeral, into a political battleground
Sure. Please read Galen Marvin Ross' present tense comment 4.1.3 which he posted on 4/20/2018 :
(I'm = I AM)
Then, please read the Time Magazine excerpt (4/18/2018) I posted in comment 4.1.14 on 4/21/2018 that proved Mr. Ross' "present tense" 4/20 comment was inaccurate.
You're welcome.
Sorry Deb,
I am also upset that the staff at Mar A Lago lacked common sense
or that the WH failed to issue them direct orders to lower the flag,
which I stated here earlier.
It was simply another unforced error by the Administration.
See how that works?
Trump can tweet all day on his phone but, he can't use it to call the general manager at Mar A Lago and, tell them to lower the flag or, they're fired? OK.
Perhaps you missed this quote from Jasper's link;
So, no, apparently AF1 was not a necessity. One would assume Mr.Trump wouldn't need to use a phone call or tweet to give orders to the property manager either.
Prove it.
We went through the exact same bullshit back then, here and on the Vine and someone posted the same article that it was not protocol.
On NV libs and cons alike were outraged because it was St Nancy.
Did you read past the first paragraph of the link I provided you earlier?
I see that Vic took my advice, skip the first paragraphs about former President Obama and start reading just above Nancy's photo.
Only 4 sitting Presidents have attended former First Lady funerals, but the current First lady always attends.
Look, I think it would have been nice for our President to attend Miss Barbara's funeral, but I can't second guess why he isn't. He has advisors for a reason.
Are you suggesting that Trump listens to his advisers? I think the evidence clearly shows that he only does that when he is in a good mood. Which doesn't seem to be a frequent occurrence.
Yes, I am. I am not privy to actual happenings, but only hearsay.
Agreed
but I can't second guess why he isn't.
There is plenty to contemplate. He insulted the Bush family mercilessly during the primaries. It left him in an awkward position now, in deference to the Bush family, they might not want him there - It was nice to see Melania there.
There are consequences to a personality flaw with Donald Trump. He has paid a high price for the insults.
Exhibit A is what John McCain was able to do to his agenda.
Agreed,
But there is absolutely no protocol for a sitting POTUS to attend the funeral of a former First Lady, it's only happened a handful of times and we went through this exact same faux outrage when Obama skipped Nancy Regan's funeral.
Skip over the Obama part and read the whole thing - the exceptions were extraordinary.
That is what I call interesting. I would have liked to have known Mrs. Madison.
Yes, I see, you have a point.
All that being said, I'm happy that Melania went:
And that is the current unofficial protocol, Mrs. Obama, did in fact attend Nancy Regan's funeral along with other former First Ladies and former Presidents.
Melania will always be remember as a first lady of class.
Curious that they seated the First Lady of the Evening next to Barack, but at least one President knows how to make her smile.
It could be that they just used Barack to separate Michelle from her plagiarist.
Melaria certainly did. That's the first time she's been happy in many months.
Looks like her and Obama have been 'doing it.'
I wouldn't go that far, too many holes to say "classy" more that I respect her for not being trashy.
I do think she's quite thoughtful, or at least her staff is doing a good job of showing that. To bring along the staff that knew Mrs. Bush was a cool gesture.
I also think we haven't seen the scorned woman other side yet, I believe when the term is over, so is his marriage. She will make sure her and Barron won't have to worry.
Agreed.
I'll remember her as a first lady of ass!
Hey you would smile too if you finally got to to sit next to someone attractive instead of just sitting next to Michelle.
Well, you gotta admit, Melania's hot as hell. She may just be the hottest first lady ever. It's between her and Jackie.
Looks aren't everything. Jackie had class to go with her good looks.
As far as being the classicists and good looking First Ladies in my life time it's defiantly Jackie and Michelle. No one else even comes close.
Melania has been like a hermit and impossible to judge yet. Always pushed behind or grabbed or massively overshadowed by that egotistical fat tub of a husband of her's and rarely seen on her own or speaking her own words with out her "owner" nearby. You really feel like he keeps her on a leash. I don't think I have ever heard her say an unscripted sentence. Not once.
Totally agree. Class is something you are born with. It is not something money can buy, no matter who much you are willing to pay. You either have it or you don't, and it goes well beyond simple good looks and expensive clothes.
She's certainly a skilled plagiarist who knows how to wear a bear skin rug.
There are millions of people who still have difficulty processing the fact that Bill Clinton isn't the current First Lady.
" There are millions of people who still have difficulty processing the fact that Bill Clinton isn't the current First Lady."
Uhmmmm....I don't remember Bill Clinton ever being the First Lady. I always thought it was his wife.
Admission is the first step in recovery. Step Two is rereading comment 8.1.8 and understanding it and the comments before it..
No, he wouldn't. His title would be former President Clinton or First Gentleman. Please educate yourself.
The are lots of things I would call Bill Clinton but under no circumstances would "gentleman" be any part of it.
The "But Trump..." comments will start in 3... 2... 1...
I would NEVER call Trump a "Gentleman", or refer to him a being one either.
Oh, come on. Stand up for The Dumpster. He must be on your "gentlemen's list," right? You wouldn't vote and constantly shill for someone who wasn't a gentleman, would you? And when you get back to us I'd love to see what your criteria are for "gentleman" standing.
BINGO! We have a winner. Probably couldn't get to the keyboard fast enough.
And coming in a close second is.. .
Is the left predictable or what?
They chant 'Peacemaker' in Bill's presence when he speaks in several countries. President Clinton is held in high regard the world over. So is President Obama. President Trump is an utter disgrace who's going to end up in jail.
You over estimate yourself.
And Step Three is educating yourself how things work in the real world, not in your biased mind.
Your recent history of comments to me indicate an increasing level of nastiness and "lastworditis". Since you refuse to read real world facts that have been presented, here they are again:
Full stop.
In a statement released shortly after Bush’s death was announced, Trump ordered flags to be flown at half staff at all federal buildings, military posts, Navy ships and embassies abroad until sunset the day of Bush’s burial.
I just hope he doesn't claim it was his idea...
But......but.....of course it was all his own idea. Who else could possibly be so smart? ??