Okay, what was so funny?
According to a new book, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, we now know what Presidents Trump and Obama were laughing about during their viral exchange at Jimmy Carter’s funeral earlier this year.
“He’d attended Jimmy Carter’s funeral, walking into Washington not as a scourge but as a conqueror,” the book reports of Trump. “He could ignore the speech on character by the outgoing president, and the cold shoulder from the vice president he’d defeated.”
“Instead, he sat next to Barack Obama and invited him to play golf, enticing him with descriptions of Trump’s courses around the world,” the book continued of the pair’s conversation. “He was no longer an anomaly. He was being treated like an American president. He wanted to be remembered as a great one.”
From Fox News:
Trump and Obama were seated near other high-profile former U.S. leaders, including former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Mike Pence, former President Bill Clinton, former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
Social media commenters at the time remarked that footage and video clips of the pair were unexpected, and others joked that Obama may have voted for Trump despite years of the pair trading political barbs.
“Trump and Obama sitting next to each other was not on the 2025 bingo card,” one social media user posted to X in January.
“Did Obama vote for Trump too?!” Clay Travis, founder of sports and politics commentary platform OutKick, joked at the time.
Trump was asked about the viral moment ahead of his inauguration, remarking that he “didn’t realize how friendly it looked.”
“I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other.’ And we probably do,” Trump added at the time. “We have a little different philosophies, right? But we probably do. I don’t know. We just got along. But I got along with just about everybody.”
More over at Fox News:
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