Trump To Designate Dec 5 National Day Of Mourning For Late George H. W. Bush - White House

US President Donald Trump will designate December 5 as the national day of mourning for late US President George H. W. Bush, Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st December, 2018) US President Donald Trump will designate December 5 as the national day of mourning for late US President George H. W. Bush, Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday.

Bush, who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993, died at the age of 94 on Friday.

"The President will designate Wednesday, December 5th as a National Day of Mourning. He and the First Lady will attend the funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.," the statement, published by US media, read.

Earlier on Saturday, Trump, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a number of other world politicians praised Bush's role in global politics and his contribution to putting end to the Cold War.