{"id":71617,"date":"2018-08-27T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=71617"},"modified":"2018-08-27T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:43:13","slug":"barack-obama-to-eulogize-john-mccain-trump-not-invited-to-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=71617","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama to eulogize John McCain; Trump not invited to funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Presidents\u00a0<strong><u>Barack Obama<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>George W. Bush<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have been asked to deliver eulogies at Sen.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>John McCain<\/strong>\u2018s funeral, according to\u00a0<em>CBS News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the funeral are still being mapped out, but\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0is not expected to be among the list of attendees or speakers. That\u2019s hardly surprising. Who could forget when then-presidential candidate Trump infamously proclaimed that McCain, a decorated Vietnam War veteran,<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>well<\/em>, was not a hero because he was captured and imprisoned by member of the North Vietnamese Army?<\/p>\n<p>The comment sparked widespread condemnation, including from other Republicans, and\u00a0led McCain, among other reasons, to banish\u00a0<u>Trump<\/u>\u00a0from attending his funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump was among scores of well-wishers who took to social media this weekend to offer his \u201cdeepest sympathies and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Presidents\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0and\u00a0George W. Bush\u00a0have been asked to deliver eulogies at Sen.\u00a0John McCain\u2018s funeral, according to\u00a0CBS News. Details of the funeral are still being mapped out, but\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0is not expected to be among the list of attendees or speakers. That\u2019s hardly surprising. Who could forget when then-presidential candidate Trump infamously proclaimed that McCain, a decorated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}