Moment Donald Trump & Barack Obama joke beside icy Jill Biden & Kamala Harris in tense exchange at Jimmy Carter funeral
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PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama were spotted sharing a joke at the funeral of Jimmy Carter in an awkward moment before proceedings. The 44th and 45th presidents were seen laughing in the second row at the National Cathedral in Washington DC in front of an icy Jill Biden and Kamala Harris.
![[Barack Obama and Donald Trump share a joke at the funeral of Jimmy Carter]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/NEW_2192480195jpg-JS962608465.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Trump, with wife Melania sat to his left, was seen turning his head and body as he turned to say something to his predecessor. Obama was seen chuckling several times as he lowered his head to hear what Trump was saying. Relations between the two former presidents have been strained in recent years, with Obama recently cracking a double-entendre-laden joke about Trump's "obsession with crowd sizes" at the Democratic National Convention.
![[George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump in the National Cathedral in DC]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000962607776_70dc2f.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Trump was always a huge critic of Obama, repeatedly raising the disproven "birther" argument to claim that he could not be the US president because he was born in Kenya. Obama's wife Michelle was not in attendance at the funeral of America's longest-living president, who died at age 100 last month after almost two years in hospice care.
A spokeswoman for the former First Lady confirmed that she is in Hawaii and had a scheduling conflict that prevented her from attending the service. His funeral has created the rare opportunity for five living presidents to be together in one place. Before 1991, there was only one other period in US history when more than five presidents were alive at the same time - around 1861.
