Deaths Donald Trump pays his last respects to Jimmy Carter at his coffin
Donald Trump has paid his last respects to the late former US President Jimmy Carter. The future Republican president paused for a few minutes on Wednesday in front of Carter's coffin, which was laid out covered with a US flag in the Capitol in Washington.
09.01.2025, 03:55
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Trump was accompanied by his wife Melania, and US Democrat Carter, who died a week and a half ago at the age of 100, will be buried on Thursday. Outgoing President Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy at the National Cathedral in Washington. In addition to Trump, all living former US presidents, including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, are expected to attend the national funeral.
Biden has declared Thursday a national day of mourning and all federal offices will remain closed. After the ceremony in Washington, Carter's coffin will be flown back to Georgia, where he will be buried alongside his wife Rosalynn, who died in 2023.
Carter died three months after his 100th birthday on December 29. The Democrat was US President from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
After Carter's death, Trump declared that US citizens owed Carter a debt of gratitude for doing "everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans". At the beginning of January, however, the future president lamented on his online network Truth Social with a view to his inauguration on January 20: "Because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the flag will fly at half-mast for the first time ever during the inauguration of a new president. No one wants to see that and no American can be happy about it."
