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Footage of former President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in dialog on the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter set social media buzzing, questioning about what happened.
On Thursday (January 9), the state funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter happened on the Nationwide Cathedral in Washington D.C. As befitting the event, all the former residing presidents had been in attendance together with President-elect Donald Trump, who sat subsequent to former President Barack Obama within the first two rows on the cathedral. Trump being close to Obama caught the eye of many who tuned in to the published of the funeral.
Obama and Trump yucking it up at Carter’s funeral pic.twitter.com/pRI24CnalF
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Observers famous that the 2 had been cordial, with Obama listening to Trump and even cracking a smile right here and there. It was a sight, contemplating the 2 have been publicly at odds with one another. In final yr’s presidential marketing campaign, when Obama was stumping for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, he famously attacked Trump in speeches at her rallies. Others seen that former First Woman Michelle Obama was not on the service, whereas former First Woman Melania Trump sat to her husband’s left, visibly in a temper. Representatives for Mrs. Obama despatched a assertion saying: “Mrs. Obama sends her ideas and prayers to the Carter household, and everybody who beloved and realized from the outstanding former president.” They confirmed that she is in Hawai’i on an prolonged trip, however didn’t supply perception on if she could be again to attend Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
The scene had many on social media in heightened dialog, with some belittling Obama for being cordial. Many extra praised Obama for being the particular person deflecting Trump’s consideration from everybody else who visibly didn’t wish to converse to him – essentially the most obvious instance got here as Trump greeted his former Vice President, Mike Pence, and his spouse Karen Pence didn’t even transfer to greet him. Trump had attacked Pence within the hours earlier than the January sixth assault on the Capitol constructing 4 years in the past, the place rioters had deliberate to hold Pence. In a put up on X, previously Twitter, the “Wu-Tang Is For The Youngsters” account famous how former President George W. Bush gave Obama a familial “stomach faucet” as he handed by to take a seat down subsequent to him with former First Woman Laura Bush.
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Trump and Obama’s Dialog At Jimmy Carter’s Funeral Sparks On-line Speak
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