{"id":3747,"date":"2026-03-11T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:48:33","slug":"jesse-jacksons-son-slams-obama-and-biden-for-using-fathers-funeral-to-take-shots-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson\u2019s son slams Obama and Biden for using father\u2019s funeral to \u2018take shots at Trump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"445\">Jesse Jackson\u2019s memorial was held on March 6, 2026, at Chicago\u2019s House of Hope, attended by former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and former VP Kamala Harris. Jackson, who died on February 17 at 84 from progressive supranuclear palsy, was a civil rights icon who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination twice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"447\" data-end=\"939\">At the service, Obama and Biden criticized the current administration, indirectly targeting Donald Trump. Obama warned of attacks on democratic institutions, while Biden said the administration \u201cdoesn\u2019t share any of the values that we have.\u201d While many applauded, Jesse Jackson\u2019s son, Jesse Jackson Jr., criticized the speeches as politicizing his father\u2019s memorial, saying the leaders \u201cdo not know Jesse Jackson\u201d and that his father\u2019s work demanded a prophetic voice beyond party politics.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"998\">Neither Obama nor Biden has responded to the criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jesse Jackson\u2019s memorial was held on March 6, 2026, at Chicago\u2019s House of Hope, attended by former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3747\" title=\"Jesse Jackson\u2019s son slams Obama and Biden for using father\u2019s funeral to \u2018take shots at Trump\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}