At the 39th president’s funeral at National Cathedral, Trump was seated in the second row in a pew shared with Barack Obama, whom he repeatedly claimed was born abroad and ineligible to be president, and Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent whom he unsuccessfully tried to prosecute once he was in office.
Ahead of Trump was President Joe Biden, whom he tried to coerce a foreign leader into smearing ahead of the 2020 election, and behind him was his former vice president, Mike Pence, who on Jan. 6, 2021, was the target of a violent mob of Trump supporters bent on preventing the certification of that election after Trump lost to Biden.
The scene was a replay of the funeral for Republican President George H.W. Bush in 2018. Bush had said he voted for Clinton in the 2016 election, and Trump, the sitting president at the time, was largely ignored by the others.
