Trump Breaks Silence On Viral Interaction With Obama

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President-elect Donald Trump said he and former President Barack Obama "probably do" like each other despite having "different philosophies" after the two were seen talking and laughing together in a since viral clip from former President Jimmy Carter's funeral at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Thursday (January 9).

Trump, 78, said he "didn't realize how friendly" he and Obama, 63, seemed to look until viewing a video of the exchange for himself.

“I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other.’ And we probably do,” Trump told reporters from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida via C-Span2. “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.”

Trump didn't provide details about what he and Obama were discussing during the interaction. Forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman told the New York Post that the two were aware of cameras and intended to appear cordial, while also acknowledging that the discussion could have been about international agreements.

Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign was launched after he served as a leading figure in the "birther" movement questioning whether Obama, a native of Hawaii, was secretly born in Kenya, which resulted in the 44th president releasing a long-form version of his Hawaiian birth certificate in 2011. The president-elect also previously accused Obama of ordering feds to "spy" on his campaign amid accusations of ties to Russia following the 2016 election.

Obama has also taken shots at Trump in the past, which included targeting his "weird obsession with crowd sizes" while holding his hands about four inches apart, mocking the 45th president's manhood. Obama also critiqued Trump's lenghty speeches as being "like Fidel Castro -- just on and on" and referenced his "constant attempts to sell you stuff," which included his golden sneakers and branded Bibles.


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