George Bush with Michelle Obama for memorable moments on McCain funeral

Barack Obama expects Trumpism in his speech - US President Donald Trump was not invited to the funeral

A grassy hill, from the top of which overlooks a picturesque coastal landscape. Down the College Creek flows to the majestic wide Severn River. Sailboats in the distance and white, slender spire of the church steeple. It is an idyllic spot that John McCain chose for his grave. A friend, Admiral Charles Larson, had the place reserved for him. The two had known each other since the 1950s when they were studying together at the Fleet Academy in Annapolis. And where since Larson's remains since 2014, John McCain was buried on Sunday.

It is a small-scale ceremony, a striking contrast to the celebrations in Washington, which made the farewell to the belligerent senator a demonstration. To a rebellion against nationalistic umbilical. McCain wanted it so, according to his will, the days of mourning in the capital to signal a rebelling, against the "America first" Donald Trumps, in which he saw a way to a dead end.

That's why Anne Flores stood for hours in front of the Capitol on a long queue on Friday. She has come to honor a great, says the 66-year-old, who is from Arizona, the state that McCain represented in the US Senate. "I wanted to be one of those who show by their presence how much they despise the behavior of our President."

Where the line begins, a man with a self-painted poster has positioned himself at a crossroads: "POW McCain Hero - Trump Coward". The prisoner of war McCain a hero, Trump a coward. Trump had a foot disease attest to press during the Vietnam War before the convocation. McCain spent five and a half years in a prison in Hanoi.

Donald Trump has to watch the television in the White House, as on Saturday many celebrities gather in the National Cathedral to pay tribute to one of his harshest critics. Even not invited, he is represented by his daughter Ivanka and the son-in-law Jared Kushner. For a long time, he can not stand it in the Zaungastrolle.

Even before his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush talk, he goes to Virginia, in one of his golf clubs. And without even mentioning Trump's name once, Obama counts on Trumpism. He has been holding back for a long time. Now he uses the opportunity for a certain sermon.

Obama's sermon

"So much in our politics, in our public life, in our public discourse, can seem mean and petty, spreading into the bombastic and insulting, into feigned controversy and artificial indignation." This is what bravery is about, in truth it was born out of fear: "John has appealed to us to be bigger, to be better." He has often disagreed with him, especially in foreign affairs, the ex-president said of the Republican, who spoke in favor of interventions such as those in Iraq and saw the US as having a duty to spread freedom and democracy, if necessary by force of arms.

Yet, McCain understood that America's influence in the world is not based solely on military power, wealth, ability to impose its will on others, but also on the ability to inspire others and hold onto values ​​that should apply to all,

Insistent speech from daughter

Bush, who defeated McCain 2000 in the inner-party duel for the presidential nomination, speaks of the dignity inherent in every human life and which McCain respected out of deepest conviction. "A dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be wiped out by dictators."

But it is Meghan McCain, the 33-year-old daughter of the dead, who speaks with tears in the most urgent clear text. "We've come together to mourn the loss of American greatness," she begins. "The real thing," not the cheap rhetoric of people who never even came close to the sacrifices her father had so willingly made.

The America of John McCain is generous, it has open doors, be bold, she adds later. It speaks in a low voice because it is strong. America does not boast because it does not need showing off. "The America of John McCain does not have to be made big again, because it has always been big."