John McCain funeral: Megan attack Trump at an influential ceremony honoring her father, John McCain.(America has always been great )

Meghan McCain on Saturday presented the legacy of her father, John McCain, as a sharp contrast to the conduct of Donald Trump, with whom the late senator bitterly feuded.

McCain's daughter Meghan McCain, praised her father and indirectly cast his character as the antithesis to Mr Trump, who was not invited to the service even as former presidents Barack Obama and George Bush were asked to speak.

She began her speech “John Sidney McCain was many things,”  “He was a sailor, he was an aviator, he was a husband, he was a warrior, he was a prisoner, he was a hero, he was a congressman, he was a senator, he was a nominee for president of the United States.”

"We gather here to grieve over the death of American greatness, the real thing, not the cheap discourse of men who will never approach his willing sacrifice, nor the opportunistic seizure of those who live a life of comfort and privilege while suffering. McCain told a crowd of mourners Washington National Cathedral, which included family, friends, former presidents, military officials and foreign leaders.

"America does not need John McCain to be great again because America has always been great," she said in an unambiguous reference to the 2016 Trump campaign slogan. The line was received with a sharp, steady clap in the cathedral.

"We are living in an age when we are putting up old American heroes because of all their flaws when no leader wants to admit mistakes or failures," she said later, "I was an exception and gave us an example to fight for."

McCain often cried with tears as he described her father as a "great warrior" but said she admired him more "as a great father."

McCain compared the literary hero of her father - Robert Jordan, the hero in Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Whomever Gets Bells" - and the late senator.

"My father had every reason to believe that the world was a terrible place ... My father had every reason to believe that the world was not worth fighting for." My father had every reason to believe that the world deserved to leave. Like the hero of his favorite book, John McCain took the opposite view. "

"As a girl, I did not appreciate what I really appreciate now - how he suffered and how he carried it with a loud silence that was once the mark of an American man," she said.

Among the current and foreign leaders and officials in the list of those invited to the memorial to John McCain are about 12 former Soviet states, particularly Ukraine and Georgia.

Both countries respect the late Arizona senator who has supported their efforts in recent years to counter Russian aggression.

    

The list provided by the funeral organizers is the current President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko (Bor O H-shin-koh) and former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili (Sah-Kach-les-Lés).

    

The list also includes current and former leaders from the three Baltic states - the former Soviet republics that are now members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

    

As one of his bodyguards, McCain chose a Russian opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Morza, who was like McCain who strongly criticizes the Kremlin.