President Trump and Vice President JD Vance getting left off the guest list for Dick Cheney’s funeral is the kind of Washington drama that would be funny if it weren’t so predictable. Fox News confirmed the White House never received an invitation for Thursday’s service at the National Cathedral, and honestly, nobody needed a detective to figure out why. The Cheney family has been in a long cold war with Trump world, and they were not about to let a funeral interrupt that grudge.
The split didn’t happen yesterday. Liz Cheney spent years turning herself into a full time critic of President Trump after the Jan. 6 committee put her on center stage. Instead of representing Wyoming the way her voters expected, she treated every microphone like an audition for a CNN contract. When she and her father openly backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, they practically slapped a giant neon sign on the relationship saying it was done for good.
Dick Cheney himself was a towering figure in Republican politics for half a century. Rising out of Casper, Wyoming, he worked his way through some of the most important jobs in government, from White House Chief of Staff to Wyoming’s lone House seat to Secretary of Defense to two terms as vice president under President George W. Bush. Love him or not, he shaped American policy after 9-11 in a way few officials ever will. He battled heart problems for decades, surviving five heart attacks and eventually receiving a transplant in 2012. When the family announced he had passed at 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, they made it clear he had been surrounded by loved ones.
Their statement described Cheney as someone who taught his children and grandchildren to love the country and live with courage, honor, love, kindness, and apparently fly fishing. It was the kind of heartfelt tribute families should be able to offer without political noise. The problem is that the Cheneys made a choice years ago to redefine themselves around opposing President Trump, so the political noise was built in from the start.
Still, skipping the sitting president and vice president at a former vice president’s funeral is a break from tradition. Washington usually tries to put on a united front during events like this. The Cheneys decided to go another way, which is their right, although it says more about the depth of the feud than anything else. President Trump will go on being President Trump, and the Cheneys will go on being the Cheneys, and apparently even a funeral is not enough to put the old battles on pause.
The Cheney and the Pelosi democrats are small-minded ingrates. Pelosi pushed through Obamacare without it being read, and tore up the State of the Union speech – how “traditional” was that. And now the Cheney family expects some kind of special recognition after what they dragged our nation through? Both families are disrespectful and ungrateful to our nation.
PIA……. You are absolutely correct in your statement…….
The mentality of people that act like this and represent America shows just how self indulgent they are……….Cheney had a long career at the expense of the American people and yet his family chose to throw out “traditions” and protocol and act like spoiled children……not sure if Cheney himself would have acted this way…but with the influence of the women in his life, I don’t question it……Liz is a spoiled little girl that would “take the ball and go home”. ………I get so tired of the left and their actions toward a sitting president…….even the Bible states to heed your leaders…….
Sorry but this TDS has gone on long enough……. the Cabal and Soros and the rest of the Anti-American Socialists have all but destroyed this country…… all because a Democrat learned of their plan for America and left their party and ran with the other party to SAVE AMERICA!!!!!!!
SHAME ON THE CHENEY FAMILY……. SHAME ON THE MEDIA….. AND SHAME ON THE. PEOPLE THAT CAN’T FORM THEIR OWN OPINION AND RESEARCH THEMSELVES AND FIND THE TRUTHS!!!!!!!!
Well, what do you expect from ignorant people? Really, small comes to mind.