Kamala Harris posts Jimmy Carter funeral photo with notable exclusion; internet reacts

[ad_1] A photograph shared by Vice President Kamala Harris from Jimmy Carter's funeral is gaining consideration for the exclusion of a sure former and incoming president.

Whereas President-elect Donald Trump attended the Washington, D.C. funeral Thursday alongside the opposite 4 residing presidents, he was not current in Harris' submit. The picture reveals Harris, President Joe Biden and former presidents Invoice Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama inserting their fingers over their hearts on the ceremony.

Trump and incoming first girl Melania Trump, who had been seated subsequent to Obama, had been each ignored of the photograph posted Saturday.

"President Jimmy Carter beloved our nation. He lived his religion, served the individuals, and left the world higher than he discovered it," the social media caption on the VP's official accounts reads. "President Carter’s many contributions will echo for generations to return."

Whereas it was not clear if Trump's exclusion was intentional, Instagram followers had been fast to note his absence after the 2 went head-to-head within the 2024 presidential election.

"Finest photograph crop of the last decade," reads one remark.

"I instantly laughed once I noticed this picture. I really like a very good cropped photograph," one other consumer wrote.

The Carter Heart, based in 1982 by the previous president and first girl Rosalynn Carter, additionally excluded the Trumps in a sequence of pictures from the funeral shared on X Thursday.

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Harris, Trump and the Carter Heart for remark.

Who attended Jimmy Carter's funeral? All 5 residing former presidents attended Jimmy Carter's funeral on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral Thursday to pay respects and condolences to the household. Biden declared Thursday, Jan. 9 a nationwide day of mourning for the thirty ninth president of the USA.

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A number of former vice presidents had been additionally current together with Mike Pence in addition to incoming Vice President JD Vance.

First girl Jill Biden, second-gentleman Doug Emhoff and several other different former spouses of the president had been additionally current, except for Michelle Obama, whose workplace didn't present particulars explaining her absence.