Article snippet: A son’s grief for his father was the emotional core of former President George H.W. Bush’s memorial service in Washington on Wednesday — but the polarized politics of the moment never vanished from view. Even as former President George W. Bush gave a moving, affectionate and often humorous eulogy for his father, much of the political world’s attention was focused on just one pew, where MORE were seated somewhat awkwardly next to the other living ex-presidents and their spouses. Trump, arriving last, shook hands briefly with former President Obama and MORE, who just last month published a best-selling memoir in which she wrote that she would never forgive Trump for putting her husband and children’s safety at risk by questioning his birthplace. Trump did not shake hands with Bill and MORE, who attended Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania, or with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, nor did he appear to acknowledge them as all eight sat in the tight National Cathedral pew. Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 presidential election opponent, nodded a greeting toward Melania Trump but otherwise stared straight ahead. That was not the only moment of awkwardness or incongruity. Trump, unlike his predecessors, did not recite the Apostles’ Creed toward the end of the service and appeared not to join in the singing of hymns. Generally, the current president appeared ill at ease, sitting rigid and with arms folded even during some of the ceremony’s most moving moments. Still, his presence its... Link to the full article to read more