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Dana Milbank: George H.W. Bush’s funeral was a powerful renunciation of Trump

Video: Dignitaries, politicians and family gathered at Washington National Cathedral on Dec. 5, to bid farewell to former president George H.W. Bush. (Video: Jenny Starrs /Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post)(Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

Washington - George Herbert Walker Bush, before his death, said he wanted President Trump to attend his funeral, a generous gesture that forgave the cavalcade of insults that Trump has rained on the Bush family.

Trump's name was mentioned not once by the four eulogists at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday. But their words were an implicit rebuke of everything Trump is.