Washington: Former US president George W. Bush has led tributes for his vice president, Dick Cheney, after his death aged 84, but President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have yet to personally acknowledge the Republican statesman’s passing.

Cheney was widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in US history – and the most controversial – as the architect of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But Cheney became a staunch and high-profile critic of Trump and the Republican Party’s embrace of Trumpism. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” he said in a 2022 television advertisement.

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