Unbelievable!! Trump eyes White House funeral service for brother, Robert

[mfcorey1]

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]

1. That way he won't have to travel

I wonder if he would be interested in having some of the Covid causalities have funerals in the White House too?

[Totally Tunsie]

16. It would have been a stop on his way to Bedminster.

Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there anyway.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Only if Donald climbs in the box.

Otherwise, forget it.

[underpants]

3. From a campaign standpoint I don't get this

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 who’ve lost family during the pandemic?
I’d think he’s going to be buried in New York, right?

[Raven]

4. So, Robert Trump has an adopted son and a wife and, I assume, friends. His asshole brother is

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]

24. It would be wonderful if the family turned it down, for whatever reason.

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]

5. I can't recall any funeral services being held at the White House in modern times.

[WyattKansas]

6. I hope Donnie Dumbass does insist on a White House funeral for his brother...

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]

7. Anything for attention...

[North Shore Chicago]

8. Show

doll-hands the casket, push him in. 100 screws and it's done!

[WorkDoctor]

9. Didn't stop his golfing

Think he visited dying brother on Friday. Robert died Sat. Trump spoke from golf course on Sat.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Lazy self-absorbed lardass.

[dalton99a]

11. Yeah, give him a state funeral

[sarcasmo]

12. Use taxpayers money for a family funeral. Grifters, never stop grifting.

[Freethinker65]

13. Is he being buried in the DC area or cremated? Otherwise not at all appropriate.

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]

14. He thinks this makes him look more presidential?

He's always hunkered down behind the walls that are behind more barriers.

[Retrograde]

15. Why stop there?

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]

17. Are they burying him behind the tennis courts or something?

[Totally Tunsie]

18. So, will he be all pissed off when no Dems show up

to "honor" his brother, like he was when John Lewis didn't show at his Inaugural?

[Paladin]

19. Fuck that shit. (nt)

[GeorgeGist]

20. Make it about ME!

F his family.

[dalton99a]

21. Gotta make the White House the best funeral parlor EVER

[Chainfire]

22. He should give him the Medal of Freedom too!

If he uses the White House, he doesn't have to rent a venue, and he can watch Fox News until funeral time.

[HotTeaBag]

23. While he's using it in poor taste and for all the wrong reasons and he's just disgusting in general,

using the White House for events is not that uncommon.

According to the White House Historical Association, there have been at least 18 weddings held at the White House, with the earliest documented nuptials featuring the sister of first lady Dolley Madison in 1812. Most recently, Obama-era White House photographer turned prominent Trump critic Pete Souza got married in the Rose Garden in 2013. The White House has played host to a number of other personal celebrations, including birthday parties, lavish dinners and even a high school prom.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/robert-trump-funeral-white-house-397004

[malaise]

25. Ann Marie Pallan: Who is Robert Trump's wife?

https://www.thelist.com/237117/ann-marie-pallan-who-is-robert-trumps-wife/
<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]

26. +1. He wasn't as obnoxious as the asshole, but he was a full-fledged and loyal gang member

[malaise]

30. Yep

although mobster might be a better choice of word

[smirkymonkey]

34. Sounds like he was a slimeball just like his brother.

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]

27. How many hours after the eulogy

will he tweet about much better his was than Obama's?

[Captain Zero]

28. Bizarre

Another bizarre symptom.

[smirkymonkey]

29. What a sickening PR stunt!

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]

31. More seedy stuff will not become public knowledge

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]

32. It's the only place he can have it and attend.

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]

33. Think of the ratings!

Publicity like that costs a fortune.

[Autumn]

35. He must be planning on using our tax dollars to plant his brother. nt