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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is eyeing a White House funeral service later this week for his younger brother, Robert, who died over the weekend in a New York hospital.
We're looking at Friday. And we may do just a small service right here at the White House," Trump told reporters Monday as he departed Washington on a trip to the Midwest.
The president said such a service would be a great honor for his sibling.
I think he'd be greatly honored. He loves our country. He loved our country so much. He was so proud of what we were doing and what we are doing for our country, Trump said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-eyes-white-house-funeral-service-for-brother-robert/ar-BB18423f?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)I wonder if he would be interested in having some of the Covid causalities have funerals in the White House too?
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there anyway.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,199 posts)Otherwise, forget it.
underpants
(185,330 posts)And everything is the campaign to him.
You basically start your official campaign with a funeral?
Is this his attempt to show empathy and compassion for all the people whove lost family during the pandemic?
Id think hes going to be buried in New York, right?
Raven
(14,065 posts)going to make these people as well as other family members, travel to Washington so he can have the center of attention. Maybe the family has agreed to this, if so, they are as pathetic as Donald is.
crickets
(26,136 posts)Not wanting to travel is a very good one. They don't have to admit it's because they don't care about donnie's selfish need to be the center of attention or his need to turn everything into a campaign rally.
sop
(11,078 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)And let it force all the shit stain Republicans to be in attendance basking in their glory, where the whole country will see how the shit stains are wiping their asses with the United States of America. Make them all own the perverted truth about themselves, followed by everyone lighting their asses up outrage and demands for a reckoning for them all.
Karadeniz
(23,123 posts)North Shore Chicago
(3,825 posts)doll-hands the casket, push him in. 100 screws and it's done!
WorkDoctor
(62 posts)Think he visited dying brother on Friday. Robert died Sat. Trump spoke from golf course on Sat.
C_U_L8R
(45,400 posts)dalton99a
(83,332 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Freethinker65
(10,787 posts)A small memorial gathering for family to mourn isn't that unusual to be held in the house of a nearby relative, but the actual funeral?
Ilsa
(62,091 posts)He's always hunkered down behind the walls that are behind more barriers.
Retrograde
(10,483 posts)I wouldn't put it past the Orange One to demand his brother lie in state in the Capitol, with all flags across the country lowered to half-mast in honor of this great patriot who most of the nation never heard of.
Good thing the Speaker of the House controls who gets to use the Capitol.
tinrobot
(11,360 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)to "honor" his brother, like he was when John Lewis didn't show at his Inaugural?
Paladin
(28,598 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,384 posts)F his family.
dalton99a
(83,332 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)If he uses the White House, he doesn't have to rent a venue, and he can watch Fox News until funeral time.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)using the White House for events is not that uncommon.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/robert-trump-funeral-white-house-397004
malaise
(275,413 posts)<snip>
We're only just getting to know Robert Trump, Donald Trump's younger brother who passed away late Saturday night. In a statement from the White House, President Trump said: "It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace" (via Fox News).
Robert Trump may have come from a well-known family, but numerous reports say he wasn't a fan of the spotlight. Before he retired, he was an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, who looked after the brand's casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and where employees reportedly knew him as the "nice Trump" (via The New York Times). And while he managed to stay out of the press, Trump became tabloid fodder when he divorced his wife Blaine in 2008 for Ann Marie Pallan, who he married in March of this year.
Ann Marie Pallan was born Anne Marie Monte, and her family owned what was once Brooklyn's oldest Italian restaurant, which was once a Prohibition speakeasy, and was an establishment of choice for Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Like Robert Trump, she was previously married. Her first husband Thomas Pallan, is a doctor, but it is not known when they divorced. She has two children, a son, and a daughter. She is also a grandmother as her daughter has two children (via Heavy).
It is not known when Pallan met Trump, although numerous newspaper reports say she was his executive assistant while he was a senior executive in the Trump organization (via New York Post). Page Six also says Pallan was a fixture in Trump's life as far back as October 2004 (four years before Robert and Blaine filed for divorce). Page Six reported on Blaine Trump's "accidental overdose," for which she was hospitalized for several days, after she learned that Robert had bought a house for Pallan worth $3.7 million in Long Island. After the divorce, Trump and Pallan stayed out of the spotlight but continued to be involved in charity work.
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If the funeral is at the WH, taxpayers need to know everything about the deceased.
dalton99a
(83,332 posts)although mobster might be a better choice of word
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Ugh, this whole family is just so sordid. With the exception of Mary, and maybe her brother.
I suppose we still don't know the actual cause of death yet, do we?
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)will he tweet about much better his was than Obama's?
Captain Zero
(7,307 posts)Another bizarre symptom.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Trump doesn't give a damn about his dead brother. This is just another opportunity for him to draw pity from the electorate and to hold a another campaign rally on the taxpayer's dime.
What a cynical ploy for attention. I knew he was a POS, but I never thought he could actually sink this low.
malaise
(275,413 posts)For example did you know that his first wife was hospitalized for an overdose after she discovered that he bought a million dollar house for his secretary/mistress. And why did he only marry her in March of this year?
The Con loves a soap opera and here's another one. Please proceed King Con.
maxrandb
(15,745 posts)I'm betting he wouldn't be invited by the family if they have the funeral anywhere else.
It's probably also the only place where there wouldn't be 170k protesters carrying caskets outside the church.
Kid Berwyn
(17,162 posts)Publicity like that costs a fortune.