President-elect Donald Trump shared that he and former President Barack Obama “most likely do like” one another following their “pleasant” encounter on the funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday.
Talking with Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Peter Doocy forward of a gathering with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump acknowledged the interplay appeared unexpectedly “pleasant.”
“It did look very pleasant, I need to say,” Trump remarked. “I didn’t notice how pleasant it seemed. I noticed it in your fantastic community, just a bit whereas in the past earlier than I got here in, and I mentioned, ‘Boy, they seem like two folks that like one another.’ And we most likely do.”
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Trump has beforehand accused Obama of spying on his 2016 marketing campaign and perpetuated false claims about Obama’s birthplace. Regardless of this historical past, the 2 have been seen smiling and laughing whereas seated subsequent to one another on the service.
“Now we have little totally different philosophies, proper?” Trump mentioned. “I don’t know, we simply obtained alongside.” He added, “However I obtained together with all people on that. You recognize, we met backstage earlier than we went on, and I believed it was a stupendous service, however all of us obtained alongside very properly.”
Obama, Trump, and Bush share tense moments at Carter’s funeral
Through the ceremony on the Nationwide Cathedral, Obama sat between Trump and former President George W. Bush, who attended with their respective wives. Former First Woman Michelle Obama was notably absent attributable to a scheduling battle however issued a press release providing condolences to the Carter household.
Bush additionally shared a second with Obama, giving him a stomach faucet whereas heading to his seat, which Obama acknowledged with a pat on the again. Nonetheless, Bush appeared to keep away from interacting with Trump as he handed by, strolling previous with out participating.
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Notably, cited by the New York Submit, forensic lipreader Jeremy Freeman, revealed what the President-elect may have conveyed throughout Carter’s funeral. “I can’t discuss, we now have to discover a quiet place someday. It is a matter of significance and we have to do that exterior in order that we will cope with it, definitely, in the present day,” he claimed.
