President-elect Donald Trump visited the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who is lying in state ahead of his funeral.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump , who has alternated among praising, criticizing and even mocking Jimmy Carter , came Wednesday to the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects as the 39th president lay in state ahead of his funeral Thursday in the nation's capital.
Carter was often the target of Trump's derision during his 2024 campaign, and the president-elect has renewed his critique of the Georgia Democrat this week amid his state funeral rites for ceding control of the Panama Canal to its home country when he was president more than four decades ago. Trump, who plans to attend Carter's funeral Thursday at Washington National Cathedral, played it straight on Capitol Hill, walking somberly into the rotunda with his wife, Melania, and pausing in front of Carter's flag-draped casket, which is resting atop the Lincoln catafalque and stands surrounded by a military honor guard. Trump was on Capitol Hill to meet with Republican senators 12 days before he takes office for the second time. His visit to the rotunda briefly paused the steady stream of citizens who waited in long lines on Capitol Hill to file past Carter's remains. Members of Congress, Hill staffers and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy were among the steady stream. Lynda Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, the daughters of President Lyndon Johnson paid their respects, as well. Luci Baines Johnson blew a kiss toward the casket as she walked away. Carter, the longest-lived U.S. president, died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, submarine officer and peanut farmer before entering politics, Carter won the White House as an outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate. He endured a rocky four years of economic unrest and international crises that ended with his defeat to Republican Ronald Reaga
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