Donald Trump has broken his silence after he was seen chatting and smiling with former US President Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral on January 9.
The President-elect, who retakes office on January 20, sat with the four other remaining living Presidents of the Whitehouse – George Bush, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and Obama.
President Carter died aged 100 on December 29, and his state funeral took place in Washington.
He will be buried on the grounds of his home in Georgia.
As people arrived at the gathering at the National Cathedral, Trump and Obama were seen talking, which has led to many wondering what the two men, who have had many political spats in the past, were talking about.
Now, Trump has commented on the conversation.
“It did look very friendly, I must say,” he told Fox News’ senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy ahead of the President-elect’s meeting with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, The Hill reports.
He added: “I didn’t realise how friendly it looked. I saw it on your wonderful network, just a little while ago before I came in, and I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other. And we probably do’.”
Trump also said: “We have little different philosophies, right? I don’t know, we just got along.
“But I got along with everybody on that. You know, we met backstage before we went on, and I thought it was a beautiful service, but we all got along very well.”
The President-elect did not reveal what was discussed.
Lip-reading expert Jeremy Freeman has shed light on part of their dialogue.
In one moment captured on camera, the expert claimed that Trump confided: “I’ve pulled out of that. It’s the conditions. Can you imagine that?”
The specifics of what he was referring to remain unclear.
Trump then tells Obama, as claimed by the expert: “I can’t talk, we have to find a quiet place. Sometimes this is a matter of importance and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it, certainly, today”. Obama could be seen nodding in agreement.
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