President Donald Trump did not receive an invitation to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
While sitting presidents typically attend the funerals of former presidents and vice presidents, Cheney withdrew his support for Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots.
Cheney, George W. Bush’s vice president from 2001 to 2009, died earlier this month at the age of 84 as a result of complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Trump did not issue a statement following Cheney’s death, but the snub is likely to irritate him.
Another source told CNN that Vice President JD Vance has also been left off the 1,000-strong invite list. The two-pronged cold-shoulder is all the more notable since all four living former vice presidents and two former presidents are set to attend the invitation-only memorial at Washington’s National Cathedral on Thursday morning.
Former President Joe Biden, who turns 83 on Thursday, will be in attendance, and former President George W. Bush, with whom he helped orchestrate the Iraq War, is expected to speak. Cheney’s daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, and some of his grandchildren are also expected to speak.
Former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle are also set to attend, along with several Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan.
A long list of past and current Cabinet officials from Republican and Democratic administrations will also be there, as well as congressional leaders from both parties.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is expected to attend, alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune and former leader Mitch McConnell.
CNN reported that the guest list serves as “a nod to a time when Washington was not so polarized.”
Cheney’s divorce from Trump started after the attack on the Capitol in 2021. He later called the president a coward in one of his daughter’s campaign ads, and both Dick and Liz Cheney voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
The president has also repeatedly insulted both Cheney and his daughter, calling Liz “one of the dumber people in politics” and Dick an “irrelevant RINO,” an acronym meaning Republican In Name Only, in a series of Truth Social posts made last year.
She served on the House Jan. 6 Committee that investigated Trump’s role in riling protestors ahead of the Capitol Riot, prompting the president to say she should go to jail. He even amplified posts on social media calling for a televised military tribunal for Cheney.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the reported snub.
