Former President George H.W. Bush was memorialized at Washington's National Cathedral on Wednesday, and everybody was there. "It was quite a moving sight to see the presidents and the first ladies in the front row, waiting to honor President Bush, chatting comfortably with one another — until Trump showed up, then it became silent staring time," Stephen Colbert narrated on The Late Show. "Donald Trump is the only person in the world who can bring down a funeral. Then came the point in the ceremony where the priest and the congregation read the Apostles' Creed — see if you can spot the odd person out in this clip." (Spoiler: It was Trump)
"Trump was famously not invited to former first lady Barbara Bush's funeral, but he was welcome today, after the Bush family promised Trump that the funeral would avoid criticizing him," Colbert said. "They even assured him that the choir would drown out the sound of other ex-presidents rolling in their graves." Still, every mention of Bush's integrity and kindness was an implicit rebuke to Trump, he added. "As soon as you start praising someone's honesty, you're automatically throwing shade at Donald Trump. I mean, Obama made Trump seem like a bad president just by sitting next to him."
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