Former US Presidents And Vice-Presidents Invited To Dick Cheney’s Funeral, But Not Trump And Vance

Last Updated:November 20, 2025, 5:37 PM IST

Dick Cheney’s funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral will see over 1,000 dignitaries attend, but Donald Trump and JD Vance were not invited. Cheney shaped US policy after 9/11.

The funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on November 3, will be held on Thursday (local time). While past presidents and politicians of both Republicans and Democrats will be attending the sending off, current President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have not been invited to the funeral.

Cheney had helped shape Washington’s response to the 9/11 attacks and emerged as the chief architect of America’s war on terror. He had turned the role of the US Vice President, traditionally inconsequential in nature, into an unusually muscular job, and observers of American politics and foreign policy saw him “as a major power behind the throne”, according to a report by AFP.

According to CNN, he will be receiving full military honours at the memorial service, which is expected to be a bipartisan who’s who of Washington dignitaries.

The funeral, an invitation-only, will be attended by over 1,000 guests at Washington’s National Cathedral. The guests will include former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, who will pay their respects, along with former vice presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle. There are also expected to be a number of Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan.

Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi is also expected to attend, along with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and former leader Mitch McConnell.

Besides, former and present Cabinet members and congressional leaders from both parties will be attending.

According to CNN, Cheney was a lifetime hardline conservative who endorsed Trump’s 2016 campaign, but in recent years he had been speaking against the President, particularly after his daughter, then-Rep. Liz Cheney, drew the president’s ire for her prominent role in a congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

In 2022, Cheney had called Trump a coward and said no one was a “greater threat to our republic”. After Cheney’s death, Trump had not publicly expressed his condolences.

The White House offered a muted reaction after Cheney’s death, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt telling reporters that Trump was “aware” the former vice president had died and noting that flags had been lowered to half-staff, CNN reported.

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