President-elect Donald Trump and his former Vice President Mike Pence shook palms at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday of their first public interplay in 4 years.
Pence was seen standing as much as shake Trump’s hand as the previous president arrived inside Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral for the funeral. After the 2 acknowledged one another and appeared to say a couple of phrases, Pence shook the hand of former First Lady Melania Trump.
Former Second Lady Karen Pence, who was seated subsequent to her husband, didn’t arise, shake Trump’s hand, nor did she seem to acknowledge him.
Trump and Pence haven’t been seen publicly collectively for the reason that two left the White House on rocky phrases 4 years in the past after not seeing eye to eye on the outcomes of the presidential election and what authorized recourse Trump needed to contest it.
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Former US Vice President Al Gore (L) watches as former Vice President Mike Pence (C) shakes palms with President-elect Donald Trump earlier than a State Funeral Service for former US President Jimmy Carter on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, on January 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Pence briefly ran unsuccessfully for president in opposition to Trump within the 2024 presidential major — dropping out in Oct. 2023 — and didn’t endorse Trump at any level main as much as the November election.
The two have publicly criticized one another over the previous few years, together with in 2023 when Trump referred to as Pence “delusional” and the previous vice chairman mentioned final yr he couldn’t “in good conscience” endorse Trump.
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From left, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, former President Barack Obama, President-elect Donald Trump and his spouse Melania Trump, arrive earlier than the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
All 5 residing males who as soon as occupied the White House — the so-called presidents’ membership — President Biden and former presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and Trump have been in the identical room on Thursday for the primary time for the reason that 2018 funeral of former President George H.W. Bush.
Former Vice Presidents Dan Quayle and Al Gore have been additionally in attendance.
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Children watch because the hearse carrying the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter pauses exterior the State Capitol in Atlanta, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 on the age of 100. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
Following the funeral, Carter’s stays shall be flown to Georgia by the U.S. Air Force aboard Special Air Mission 39 for a personal ceremony in his hometown of Plains.
Carter, the thirty ninth president, died on Dec. 29 on the age of 100 after he was admitted to hospice care in 2023.
