WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will not attend former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral – and wasn't asked to speak at the service.

A senior White House official said that the president would not attend the funeral and was not aware of anyone else on his staff going to the invitation-only service that will be held in Washington, DC, on Nov. 20 at the National Cathedral.

The White House previously said that Trump was "aware" of the vice president's passing and lowered flags to half-staff.

Two former presidents are known to be attending the service: George W. Bush, who served two terms in office with Cheney as his VP, and Joe Biden, who served as vice president for eight years before he won his own bid for the White House.

Bush is slated to speak at the service. It was not clear if any other former presidents would attend. Former President Bill Clinton will not attend due to what a spokesperson described as an unavoidable scheduling conflict. The person said Clinton is keeping the Cheney family in his prayers.

A spokesperson for Barack Obama did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump's decision not to attend was not exactly a surprise. The Cheney family has an acrimonious relationship with the two-term Republican president and actively supported his Democratic opponent in the last presidential election. The former vice president endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, and his daughter, Liz, campaigned alongside her in the general election.

"He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him," Dick Cheney said at the time. "He can never be trusted with power again. As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution."

Liz Cheney sat on the Jan. 6 committee in Congress and voted to impeach Trump over the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which she said he incited. The former Wyoming congresswoman later lost her reelection bid to a Trump-backed challenger in the GOP primary.

A spokesperson for Vice President JD Vance did not respond to a request for comment for either.

Vance is slated to participate in a fireside chat hosted by the conservative publication Breitbart News in Washington on Thursday morning before the funeral's start time.

He took a swipe at Cheney during a discussion with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week after RFK said that Cheney "seemed to be actually running the county" during George W. Bush's administration.

"Not very well, as it turns out," Vance interjected, with a laugh. Kennedy, who's Health and Human Services secretary, responded, "We agree on that."

Cheney died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Nov. 3. He was 84.

Contributing: Joey Garrison, Natalie Alund

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