Trump Has Changed How His Rivals Are Remembered
The unnamed, uninvited president was a spectral presence at the funeral of Representative Elijah Cummings.
In the age of Donald Trump, even funerals are political.
Elijah Cummings and John McCain did not share a whole lot in common besides the profession of politics. They were of different races and political parties; they had greatly different life experiences; they lived on different ends of the country; and they even served on different sides of the Capitol.
But both lawmakers died during Trump’s presidency, and as such, they were both remembered in death for the roles they played in this tumultuous political era—as distinctly honorable
