Jimmy Carter's Funeral Again Showcases The Divide Between Trump And All The Rest
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The president-elect sat in the row directly ahead of Mike Pence, against whom he once incited a violent mob.
WASHINGTON ― The current and former living U.S. presidents said goodbye to Jimmy Carter on Thursday, and in the process once again highlighted the contrast between former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump and all the others.
At the 39th president’s funeral at National Cathedral, Trump was seated in the second row in a pew shared with Barack Obama, whom he repeatedly claimed was born abroad and ineligible to be president, and Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent whom he unsuccessfully tried to prosecute once he was in office.
Ahead of Trump was President Joe Biden, whom he tried to coerce a foreign leader into smearing ahead of the 2020 election, and behind him was his former vice president, Mike Pence, against whom Trump incited a mob of his followers during his last-gasp attempt to overturn that election on Jan. 6, 2021.
The scene was a replay of the funeral for Republican President George H.W. Bush in 2018. Bush had said he voted for Clinton in the 2016 election, and Trump, the sitting president at the time, was largely ignored by the others.
Trump has, over the years, insulted in personal terms both Carter and all the remaining living presidents individually as well as collectively, calling them “stupid people” who struck trade agreements and treaties that Trump opposes.
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