Trump, Pence shake hands at Carter funeral in first public meeting since leaving office

President-elect Donald Trump and his previous Vice President Mike Pence shook hands at previous President Jimmy Carter’s funeral service on Thursday in their very first public interaction in 4 years.

Pence was seen withstanding shake Trump’s hand as the previous president showed up inside Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral for the funeral service. After the 2 acknowledged each other and appeared to state a couple of words, Pence shook the hand of previous First Woman Melania Trump.

Previous 2nd Woman Karen Pence, who was seated beside her partner, did not stand, shake Trump’s hand, nor did she appear to acknowledge him.

Trump and Pence have actually not been seen openly together because the 2 left the White Home on rocky terms 4 years earlier after not agreeing on the outcomes of the governmental election and what legal option Trump needed to contest it.

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Pence briefly ran unsuccessfully for president versus Trump in the 2024 governmental main– leaving in Oct. 2023– and did not back Trump at any point leading up to the November election.

The 2 have actually openly slammed each other over the previous couple of years, consisting of in 2023 when Trump called Pence “delusional” and the previous vice president stated in 2015 he might not “in great conscience” back Trump.

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From left, previous President Costs Clinton, previous Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, previous President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, previous President Barack Obama, President-elect Donald Trump and his better half Melania Trump, get here before the state funeral service for previous President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ( AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

All 5 living guys who as soon as inhabited the White Home– the so-called presidents’ club– President Biden and previous presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and Trump remained in the exact same space on Thursday for the very first time because the 2018 funeral service of previous President George H.W. Bush.

Previous Vice Presidents Dan Quayle and Al Gore were likewise in participation.

Kids enjoy as the hearse bring the flag-draped coffin of previous President Jimmy Carter stops briefly outside the State Capitol in Atlanta, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Carter passed away Dec. 29 at the age of 100. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Swimming Pool)

Following the funeral service, Carter’s remains will be flown to Georgia by the U.S. Flying Force aboard Unique Air Objective 39 for a personal event in his home town of Plains.

Carter, the 39th president, passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 after he was confessed to hospice care in 2023.