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 Perhaps the most biting part of Meghan McCain's eulogy for her father Sen. John McCain during Saturday's memorial was when she went straight for President Trump's slogan. Some even hoped for — but didn’t get — a blistering tweet from the president. The funeral service for John Sidney McCain III, at the Washington National Cathedral, on this swampy Saturday morning, was all about a rebuke to the pointedly uninvited current President of the United States, which was exactly how McCain had planned it. Trump had endured a week of criticism for his handling of McCain’s death, but the eulogy from the late senator’s daughter Meghan was the last straw, according to three people close to the White House. This was made clear a few minutes into the two-and-a-half-hour service, when McCain’s daughter Meghan, weeping at times, called it a funeral for nothing less than “the passing of American greatness” that her father represented, and not the “cheap rhetoric” that now passes for it. “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great.” 
 
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 While Trump allies often quietly hope the president tones down his Twitter commentary, Saturday was different. “I find it contemptible that the McCain family couldn’t seat them in a better, more respectable section.” 
 
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 The White House did not respond to a request for comment. McCain’s memorial had ended by the time Trump left the golf course Saturday afternoon. “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” 
 
 Annie Karni and Nolan D. McCaskill contributed to this report.
– John McCain appears to have handed his feud with President Trump down to the next generation, reports USA Today, and the latter took to Twitter to apparently respond to Meghan McCain's swipe at his campaign slogan while eulogizing her father on Saturday. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," he tweeted Saturday afternoon from his golf course in Virginia, in response to her statement that "The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great." The anti-Trump vibes coming out of the funeral had his supporters fuming, notes Politico, with former adviser Katrina Pierson tweeting that unlike John McCain, "@realDonaldTrump ran for @POTUS ONE time and WON. Some people will never recover from that." Meanwhile, over at the New Yorker, Susan B. Glasser calls the funeral not "just another funeral of an elder statesman whose passing would be marked by flowery words about the end of an era. It was a meeting of the Resistance, under vaulted ceilings and stained-glass windows."