Though the event marked the primary time each residing former president had convened since 2018, Michelle was MIA resulting from her extending her vacation in Hawaii as CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported on the time.
Whereas Michelle was lacking from his aspect, Obama proved to be a pleasant presence among the many former nationwide leaders. In footage from the memorial, the forty fourth president—who shares daughters Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23, with Michelle—talked animatedly to Trump for a number of minutes. He additionally stood to greet former president Bush, who shortly gave him a stomach faucet earlier than taking a seat. A greeting that, naturally, went viral on-line.
Regardless of lacking the memorial, Michelle did pay her respects to former president Carter—who died Dec. 29 at age 100—by a joint assertion together with her husband.
“President Carter taught all of us what it means to dwell a lifetime of grace, dignity, justice, and repair,” the couple wrote in a joint assertion shared to Instagram Dec. 29. “Michelle and I ship our ideas and prayers to the Carter household, and everybody who cherished and realized from this outstanding man.”
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