Trump reveals bombshell truth about his ‘bromance’ moment with Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral

Donald Trump revealed that the moments of laughter he shared with Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral were genuine.

For what should have been bleak After the 39th president’s final farewell, Thursday’s service was filled with icy exchanges, stares and mysterious conversations — which viewers said seemed like something straight out of a Real Housewives script.

One of the most talked about moments was a clear moment of affection between Trump and Obama.

Trump returned to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida later Thursday evening to meet with Republican governors — and declined to say what he and Obama discussed. But he joked: “It looked very friendly, I must say.”

He noted that he had seen the coverage of it on television and the obsession with their conversation on social media.

‘I didn’t realize how friendly it looked. I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people who like each other,’ and we probably do,” he said. “We don’t have many different philosophies, right, but we probably do.”

The president-elect added, “I don’t know. We just got along. But I got along with pretty much everyone,” perhaps referring to former Second Lady Karen Pence’s criticism of him and Melania.

He said the entire celebrity cast met “backstage” before the funeral and said “we all got along really well.”

All the former presidents sat together in a private room before their entrance into the cathedral.

According to the White House, they also greeted President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden upon their arrival.

Trump helped spawn the so-called ‘birther’ movement, while Obama humiliated the reality TV host on stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011 – which is considered a motivating factor for Trump’s decision to 2016 to launch a White House run.

But on Thursday, Trump and Obama acted as if they were old friends.

The Republican president-elect and the former Democratic commander in chief chatted, with Trump making Obama laugh at one point.

The images sparked a number of online captioning competitions and calls for a lip reader.

Forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman told DailyMail.com that Trump cryptically said it was important to speak to Obama privately “today” so they could “settle” something.

Trump suggested that they find a “quiet place” where they could discuss the mysterious matter after the service. It remained unclear whether the crucial information Trump had to tell Obama was related to a national security matter or something else.

But the animated conversation between them made the audience very curious about what they were whispering about.

The two men are expected to meet again in eleven days, when Trump is sworn in for his second term.

They had a previous private conversation shortly after Trump was elected president in 2016.

Some of that White House conversation has since come to light, including Obama telling Trump about his deep concerns about North Korea.

Obama said at the time that Pyongyang and its nuclear and missile programs posed the greatest threat to the United States as Trump began his first term.

Their final conversation took place as Carter was celebrated for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency.

All five of his living presidential successors were present.

President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to support Carter’s run for the White House in 1976, delivered a eulogy.

Biden and first lady Jill Biden sat in the front row next to Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, many of whom noticed an icy tension as they did not appear to address each other.

Trump had Obama sitting on his right, and his wife Melania on his left. Michelle Obama did not attend the funeral.

At one point, Kamala Harris, who was in the row in front of Obama and Trump, turned to watch their conversation, then turned and let out a long sigh.

Obama attended the service solo due to a scheduling conflict that involved Michelle in Hawaii.

Also in that row were former Presidents George W. Bush and Laura Bush, as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Democratic candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The third row was reserved for former vice presidents, including Mike Pence and Karen Pence – who refused to shake hands with Donald or Melania Trump – and Al Gore.

All eyes were on the current and former political friends and foes as they arrived at the Washington National Cathedral Thursday morning.

Biden, 82, who will leave office in 11 days, hinted at politics during his remarks at the funeral by repeating several times that “character” was Carter’s most important attribute.

He appeared to attack Trump when he said, “We have an obligation not to give hate a safe haven” and pointed out the importance of standing up against “abuse of power.”

The comments reflected Biden’s typical criticism of Trump.

Before the service, Trump also had a cordial moment with Mike Pence, his former vice president with whom he pushed to overturn the 2020 election results and then had a spectacular falling out.

Despite their differences, the two men shook hands prior to Carter’s service.

However, Karen Pence, who was sitting next to her husband, pointedly refused to shake Trump’s hand and remained in her seat.

She also snubbed Melania Trump, looking away as the incoming first lady arrived and appeared to speak to her.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Trump a sideways glance as the president-elect and first lady Melania Trump headed to their own seats.

Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency at a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral, with the kind of pageantry that the 39th US President usually avoided.

It was followed by an intimate funeral in his hometown, near where he was born a century ago.

Biden and others took turns in the morning touting Carter’s record — which many historians have viewed more favorably since he lost his bid for a second term in 1980 — and praising his character.

The twin ceremonies in Washington and Plains, Georgia, were a moment of national hospitality in a particularly partisan era and offered a striking portrait of a president once considered a political failure but ultimately recognized as having an enduring national and had lasting significance. global impact.

“He built houses for people who needed houses,” said Joshua Carter, a grandson who recalled Carter regularly teaching Sunday school in Plains after leaving the White House.

‘He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. He made peace everywhere in the world, wherever he saw an opportunity. He loved people.’

Jason Carter, another grandson, wryly noted his grandparents’ frugal practices, such as washing and reusing ziplock bags, and his grandfather’s struggles with his cell phone.

“They were small-town people who never forgot who they were and where they came from, no matter what happened in their lives,” says Jason, president of the Carter Center, a global humanitarian operation founded by Jimmy and his late wife Rosalynn. Carter.

Carter died on December 29 at the age of 100 and lived so long that two of Thursday’s eulogies were written by people who died before him: his vice president, Walter Mondale, and his presidential predecessor, Gerald Ford.

Thursday concluded six days of national rituals that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Navy officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in hospice care.

After the morning service, Carter’s remains, his four children and his extended family returned to Georgia on a Boeing 747 that serves as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board.