Donald Trump Failed To Seem At Elijah Cummings Funeral
On Friday (October 25), a memorial service and funeral have been held in honor of longtime Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, and Donald Trump was a no-show at each.
A duplicate of the president’s schedule was made public this morning and revealed that Trump had nothing deliberate till 11:40 a.m. when he was because of go away the White Home for Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to take a flight to South Carolina. That departure from D.C. would have been nicely after each providers wrapped up.
The information of Elijah Cummings’ dying got here final Thursday (October 17) when his workplace introduced that he had handed from problems surrounding “longstanding well being challenges.”
Trump tweeted a constructive message about Cummings hours after his dying, studying: “My warmest condolences to the household and lots of buddies of Congressman Elijah Cummings. I bought to see first hand the energy, ardour and knowledge of this extremely revered political chief. His work and voice on so many fronts might be very onerous, if not inconceivable, to switch!”
That mentioned, Trump and Cummings had a contencious relationship in public up till the late consultant’s premature dying. Trump had beforehand referred to Baltimore, which is in Cummings’ seventh congressional district, as “rat infested.”
Because the chairman of the Home Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings was put front-and-center of the impeachment inquiry and different investigations associated to Donald Trump.
Whereas Trump didn’t present as much as the funeral and memorial providers, different presidents together with Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton did attend and spoke his reminiscence. First Girl’s Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton have been additionally readily available on the occasions.
Donald Trump additionally did not attend Elijah Cummings’ lying-in-state ceremony on the Capitol on Thursday.
