Dick Cheney’s family gave Donald Trump one funeral snub

 

The establishment spent years treating Dick Cheney like Darth Vader himself when George W. Bush was President.

Democrats called him a war criminal, blamed him for Iraq, and made him the face of everything they hated about Republicans.

But Dick Cheney’s family just gave Donald Trump one funeral snub.

Trump Left Off The Guest List For Dick Cheney’s Washington Funeral

Former Vice President Dick Cheney died November 3 at age 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac disease.¹

His funeral took place Thursday morning at Washington National Cathedral with full military honors and over 1,000 invited guests.¹

The guest list read like a who’s who of Washington power — former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, all four living former Vice Presidents (Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore, Dan Quayle), Supreme Court Justices including Chief Justice John Roberts, congressional leaders from both parties including Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell, and hundreds of other dignitaries.²

But President Donald Trump didn’t get an invitation.

Neither did Vice President JD Vance.²

Sitting presidents traditionally attend funerals for former presidents and vice presidents.³

Trump’s exclusion broke decades of Washington protocol.

The Cheney family made a deliberate choice to shut out the current Republican president and vice president while welcoming the entire bipartisan establishment.

The Cheney-Trump Feud Reached Its Bitter End

The snub shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention.

Dick Cheney endorsed Trump back in 2016 when he first ran for President.⁴

But everything changed after January 6, 2021.

Cheney’s daughter Liz served as vice chair of the Democrat-led House committee that investigated the Capitol riot.⁵

She accused Trump of summoning a violent mob and became the face of the Republican resistance to Trump.

Dick Cheney went even further in a 2022 campaign ad for his daughter, calling Trump “a coward” who “tried to steal the last election using lies and violence.”⁶

Both Cheneys endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.⁷

Dick Cheney said Trump posed a “greater threat to our republic” than any individual in American history.⁷

Trump fired back hard, calling Dick Cheney an “irrelevant RINO” and the “King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars.”⁸

He said Liz Cheney should go to jail for her role on the January 6 committee.

Trump even amplified social media posts calling for a televised military tribunal for Liz Cheney.⁹

During the 2024 campaign, Trump told Arab and Muslim voters that Cheney’s support for Harris should concern them because Dick “killed more Arabs than any human being on Earth.”¹⁰

At an Arizona rally, Trump called Liz a “war hawk” and suggested putting her “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”¹¹

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Trump Stayed Silent While Washington Honored A Critic

The White House lowered flags to half-staff after Cheney’s death, as federal law requires.¹²

But Trump never issued a presidential proclamation honoring Cheney’s service.

He made no public statement about Cheney’s passing.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters only that Trump was “aware” the former vice president had died.¹³

Vice President Vance offered measured condolences before the funeral, calling Cheney “a guy who served his country” and wishing his family “all the best in this moment of grieving.”¹⁴

That diplomatic response stood in stark contrast to Trump’s years of vicious attacks on both Cheneys.

Thursday’s funeral brought together Republicans and Democrats, Bush administration officials and Obama administration officials, conservative Supreme Court justices and liberal ones.

The ceremony represented exactly the kind of bipartisan Washington consensus that Trump spent his political career demolishing.

Dick Cheney served for four decades in Washington — as a congressman from Wyoming, White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, and Vice President for two terms under George W. Bush.¹⁵

He was considered one of the most powerful and influential vice presidents in American history.¹⁵

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But his role as architect of the Iraq War left him deeply unpopular when he left office in 2009 with a 13% approval rating.¹⁶

The old guard Republican establishment that Cheney represented spent decades building the party.

They controlled it through the Bush years.

Then Trump showed up, won the presidency despite their opposition, remade the party in his image, and left establishment Republicans like the Cheneys on the outside looking in.

The funeral snub was the Cheney family’s final act of defiance against the man who ended their political dynasty and transformed the Republican Party into a populist, America First movement that has no use for the foreign policy establishment Dick Cheney embodied.

Trump now leads the party the Cheneys once dominated.

And they couldn’t even bring themselves to invite him to Dick Cheney’s funeral.

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¹ Fox News, “Trump not invited to Dick Cheney funeral at National Cathedral service: Report,” November 20, 2025.

² CNN, “Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral, but all four living former vice presidents attending,” November 20, 2025.

³ Axios, “Trump snubbed for Dick Cheney’s funeral,” November 20, 2025.

⁴ Wikipedia, “Dick Cheney,” November 2025.

⁵ Fox News, “Trump not invited to Dick Cheney funeral at National Cathedral service: Report,” November 20, 2025.

⁶ NPR, “Former VP Dick Cheney says he will vote for Harris,” September 7, 2024.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ ABC News, “Dick Cheney funeral: Guests begin to arrive, Trump and Vance not invited,” November 20, 2025.

⁹ The Daily Beast, “Donald Trump Snubbed From Invite List for Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney’s Funeral,” November 20, 2025.

¹⁰ Associated Press, “A bipartisan show of respect and remembrance is set for Dick Cheney’s funeral, absent Trump,” November 20, 2025.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² CNN, “Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral, but all four living former vice presidents attending,” November 20, 2025.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Ibid.

¹⁵ Ibid.

¹⁶ Wikipedia, “Dick Cheney,” November 2025.