Trump says he is planning to attend Jimmy Carter's funeral

[question everything]

Source: AP

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Asked about it as he walked into a New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump responded, “I’ll be there.” Pressed on whether he’d spoken to members of Carter’s family, Trump said he’d rather not say.

Funeral services honoring Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, beginning Jan. 4 and concluding Jan. 9.

Trump was a frequent and fierce critic of Carter on the campaign trail ahead of November’s election, using the rising inflation rates of the 1970s to unfavorably compare President Joe Biden to Carter and his administration.

But the president-elect was gracious about the former president in posts on his social media site after Carter’s death Sunday, writing that the nation “owed him a debt of gratitude.”


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[2naSalit]

1. I wouldn't be surprised...

If he's asked to stay away.

[onenote]

26. Then you don't know much about the Carter family and their values.

[NotHardly]

47. Need to tell him he is not invited & block him & his ilk

[question everything]

61. I think that creating a distraction will diminish the dignity of the event.

[CBHagman]

70. That's my concern, especially with the media eager to see a golden (or orange) goose start bringing in subscribers...

The reporters who term Trump "gracious" remind me of last summer's suggestions that Trump had a different tone after the shooting at the Pennsylvania rally. If anything, he sunk even lower, if such a thing is possible.

[MontanaMama]

51. Hope he's shunned

by everyone there.

[2naSalit]

59. That's what he deserves.

I really hope he's asked not to attend. Nobody wants to see him there.

[MontanaMama]

66. Same.

I hope he’s asked not to attend inauguration by the grim reaper. My money has been on cholesterol for 9 years.

[2naSalit]

69. LOL!

Yeah, I'm with you on that one! I really don't care which of the list of health interruption possibilities occurs first just make it happen now!

[MontanaMama]

72. "Health interruption".

I’ll be borrowing that, my friend.

[2naSalit]

73. Use it up!

[sakabatou]

2. I hope he's blocked.

His ass shouldn't even be anywhere near Carter.

[NEOBuckeye]

14. Carter wouldn't have stopped him.

Hey, I can’t stand Trump as much as anyone else here. But Carter wasn’t the kind of guy who played such petty games as Trump would, if the shoe were on the other foot.

Trump can’t hold a candle to Carter’s example of decency and masculinity in leadership. Not in a billion, billion years. He will forever pale in contrast and comparison by definition.

[sakabatou]

17. Dump has no grace, nor tact

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he made the funeral about himself or made it into a political.

[Bengus81]

33. Melania going to show or will it be the usual "scheduling conflict"?

[Irish_Dem]

37. She might show up if the amount offered is enough for her.

[mn9driver]

50. No doubt her contract requires a minimum number of spousal appearances.

And it’s early in the year, so she hasn’t reached her quota yet. She’ll be there.

[GoneOffShore]

41. Felon 47 fits Alice Roosevelt Longworth's description of Theodore Roosevelt

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

[cyclezealot1]

20. The Anti Christ.

For a photo op. Hed go where's he's not welcome. He wouldn't say. Had he been on oted. Says it all

[sakabatou]

60. I don't know about the anti-Christ

But he's the walking embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins.

[Dan]

58. Hope he wears a clean diaper.

[The Roux Comes First]

75. But There Are SO MANY Damned Places His Ass Should Not Be Near!

[Silent Type]

3. Might do him some good to be around a memorial for a really great man. Kind of like Scrooge

OK. I’ve had a few.

[The Roux Comes First]

4. I'd Be Very Surprised and Maybe Even a Bit Impressed If He Can Pull Off Even a Dab of a Humble Moment

Without turning it into to a look-at-me shit-show.

[NEOBuckeye]

15. He's a narcissist. He can't and won't.

It’s all for show, which is all he ever does.

But seeing Carter’s casket should remind Trump of one of his deepest fears—his own mortality—which, blessedly, is a certainty. The only question remaining is when.

[The Roux Comes First]

53. It Can't Happen Too Soon!

As noted elsewhere on DU, many have their morning awakening largely in hope of an obit!

[bdamomma]

55. It's a New Year

anything can happen, we don't know what the future holds.

[SCantiGOP]

5. Asshole is already planning

how to get the spotlight. I wish he had enough normal empathy to realize the scorn most will have for him.

[orleans]

6. didn't he crash someone else's funeral? nt

[dflprincess]

9. I think Ivanka & Jared crashed

George HW Bush's.

[Polybius]

11. Trump was at that one

Even met with W and Jeb.

[dflprincess]

12. You're right

I had to Google it but it was McCain's funeral they crashed.

[Polybius]

13. Ahh yes!

If I recall correctly, the McCain's didn't want Trump there.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. You're right, they crashed John McCain's funeral since TFG was banned

But he did show up at George H.W. Bush's funeral and made a spectacle of himself by wandering around while all the former presidents and First Ladies sat together and talked quietly. They even made room for Melania.

[The Roux Comes First]

78. The Walking, or Staggering, Definition of "Pathetic," That entity Is

[orleans]

18. wait -- trump was there-- he was just a big asshole; i guess he didn't "crash" it

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/george-hw-bush-funeral-trump-clintons-obamas

video:

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[R Merm]

7. There's only one funeral I want to see him at,

his own

[NEOBuckeye]

16. I don't even want to see him there.

His body belongs in an unmarked ditch somewhere. There should be no monument for his idiot followers to make into a shrine to all the profound stupidity and vile behavior that charlatan embodies.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. I was hoping for a gutter, but a ditch would be fine.

Especially if forensics reveals his headless corpse to be riddled with STDs and crystal meth.

[bdamomma]

56. There will

be celebrations in the streets when that day comes!!!

[Geechie]

8. Question for Michelle Price:

Did you purposely leave out the fact that just before Trump paid his “respects” to Carter, he mocked him, saying Biden had replaced him as worst president in history
…
or did your editor make you leave out that part?

He should keep his slimy self away from both services. I doubt the ushers would deny him entrance, but it would be a wonderful thing to see.

[Boomerproud]

71. So "gracious". Grrrrrr.

[dflprincess]

10. I wonder if he'll bring Elon? nt

[cstanleytech]

24. Well, bringing incoming President Musk would be ok I guess but still up to Carter's family.

[eppur_se_muova]

21. I sure hope this travesty can be averted. Doesn't he have to be INVITED ??

I remember TR's daughter said he "wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."

tsf just wants to be the bloviating asshole anywhere the cameras are turned on.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. You beat me to it (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

[cstanleytech]

23. Hopefully he wasn't invited as he'd try to make himself the center of attention.

[Skittles]

25. fuck that fascist POS Trump

he has ZERO SENSE OF DECENCY

STAY THE FUCK AWAY

[JohnSJ]

27. Of course he is. He wants the attention focused on him.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. Trump attending President Carter's funeral reminds me of what

Alice Roosevelt Longworth said about her father, Theodore Roosevelt:

My father (Theodore Roosevelt) always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

[Tarzanrock]

30. Good moment for the vulgar Turd's wig to fall off and ...

... for the stinking Turd to shit his diaper in public during the service when the cameras are on him so that the American people and the world will always remember him for the craven asshole that he is and always will be remembered as such until the end of time.

[TommieMommy]

31. He's only going for publicity. Can't stand him 😡

[Bengus81]

32. And...he'll sit there looking bored out of his skull. Just watch.

He doesn't give a rats ass about Carter or his legacy. I'm sure he's bashed him every chance he gets. Him being there will be just the usual show boating shit.

[LeftInTX]

34. ugh....I thought he would pass

[bucolic_frolic]

35. The timing of these events

The great moral arc of President Carter's life is injected into this moment when the biggest doofus ever (and I hesitate to use the word doofus as it might give doofuses a bad name) ever is about to take the presidency again with calamitous consequences amid a sea of depravity in policy and personnel. This is not a contrast, this is wind shear and cleavage rolled into the subconscious.

[3catwoman3]

80. Comparing Trump to pretty much anything gives that thing...

…a bad name.

I liken him to a tapeworm - fugly to look at and sucks the life out of whatever he’s involved with.

[Irish_Dem]

36. Trump would "rather not say" if he talked to the Carter family?

[walkingman]

38. What a disgrace to the values Carter represents.

[Paladin]

39. Jimmy Carter would have no problem with trump showing up.

But then, Jimmy Carter was a much better person than I am.

[lark]

40. Fuck tsf, this isn't about Carter, it's about proving no one can stop his cruelty and hate. That's it!

He can't stand to miss an opportunity to have his shit ugly face on tv~~ He knows we hate him and just wants to rub our noses in his supposed success. Of course, he'd never have won without Eloons and Pootys billions helping him~

[eppur_se_muova]

63. He's only the pResident-(mis)ELECT. We only have one POTUS at a time. If Biden say no, he can't come.

Also, if the Carter family or Carter Center says no, that should be the final word. Oh, heck, the Secret Service should get a veto as well.

I hope it happens, just so tsf can have another public meltdown and show the world what a POtuS he is.

[question everything]

67. But he is also a former president. If Clinton and Obama - and Bush? will be there, he should be, too.

Just to be honest with ourselves.

[MichMan]

81. If he said he wasn't going, there would be post after post saying he was being disrespectful. n/t

[doc03]

42. Jimmy may actually turn over in his grave. nt

[bluestarone]

43. Just as long as he doesn't get much

Microphone time. PLEASE NO microphone.

[Vinca]

44. What he really means to say is: "Look at me, look at me, look at me."

[bdamomma]

57. Of course

he's such a narcissist. Such a criminal thug. I hope the family tells him NO.

[IzzaNuDay]

45. he is only going to fulfill his fantasy

He is going to listen to the praises and eulogies thinking and fantasizing one day he’ll have that day when he’s dead. As others quoted Alice Longworth’s description of her father President Roosevelt.

[PortTack]

46. Going to literally and figuratively stink the place up!

[Emile]

48. We definitely don't want to see him there.

[Bird Lady]

49. Not just NO but HELL NO

If that asshole shows up he will try to make it about him. It will be a day for a grateful nation to say goodbye to a truly good man, not the worst person in the world. My greatest hope is more people show up to Carter's funeral than 45's inaugural.

[paleotn]

52. Not welcome.

Go away, scumbag.

[bdamomma]

54. The Carter family

should say No, that won't be necessary.

[ificandream]

62. I was quite surprised that Trump's statement on Carter was so gracious.

I suspect there will be a flat turnaround come Jan. 20.

[pfitz59]

65. I suspect it was ghost-written

I'm sure his staff intercepted and squelched his original tweet.

[Deep State Witch]

64. Teachable Moment

Maybe it will be a teachable moment? If not for him, for his cultists. It will show them what REAL Christians look like.

[Blue_Tires]

68. Donnie is going make it all about himself

And turn it into a campaign rally, just like he did in Arlington...

(I still cannot believe people let him get away with that) 😒

[IcyPeas]

74. Ugghh. He is going to sully the entire service. Very unfortunate.

I'm really hoping he will not be invited. 🤞

[Srkdqltr]

76. Who the actual heck cares?

[electric_blue68]

82. I care bc he's a traitor to our country, he shouldn't be there, certainly does not honor President Carter by the way...

acts/ed as a (former, gak) pResident, and a (supposed) person.

Disgusting that he might be there.

[Initech]

77. Stay the fuck out of it, asshole!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

79. He wants President Harris or President Buttigieg to be forced to attend his funeral, however awkward that would be

Using precedent to set more precedent.