Cameras inside Jimmy Carter’s funeral captured Donald Trump and Barack Obama making each other laugh as they chatted up a storm while former—and current—U.S. leaders took their seats on Thursday morning.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — reunited at Jimmy Carter's funeral service in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9. Obama and Trump held a long conversation at the start of the event,
9:50 a.m. Trump shook hands with former Vice President Mike Pence, marking the first time the two have been seen publicly in the same room in four years. 9:50 a.m. Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrived at the funeral and were seated next to Obama.
Carter had a lengthy post-presidency with humanitarian work across the globe, including with preventable diseases. In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to "find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
President-elect Donald Trump shook hands with his former Vice President Mike Pence and spoke extensively with former President Barack Obama during the state funeral for late President Jimmy Carter on Thursday.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump sat next to each other Thursday morning at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. Obama and Trump can be seen speaking to each other for quite a while as other dignitaries filed into the National Cathedral,
Donald Trump publicly interacted with his former vice president Mike Pence for the first time in four years on Thursday at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Thursday's service will cap off six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. After the funeral, Carter will return to Georgia to be buried in his hometown of Plains, next to his beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.
For former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well other former presidents, were joined by their spouses while Barack Obama attended solo.
As guests arrived for Jimmy Carter's funeral in Washington, many quickly wondered why Michelle Obama was not among them.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.