Trump and Obama were seen chatting at the funeral (Image: Getty)
has broken his silence after he was seen chatting and smiling with former President at funeral on January 9.
The President-elect, who retakes office on January 20, sat with the four other remaining living Presidents of the Whitehouse – George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Obama.
died aged 100 on December 29, and his state funeral took place in .
He will be buried on the grounds of his home in Georgia.
As people arrived at the gathering at the National Cathedral, , which has led to many wondering what the two men, who have had many political spats in the past, were talking about.
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Trump and Obama talked at length (Image: Getty)
The pair have had many political skirmishes in the past (Image: Getty)
Now, Trump has commented on the conversation.
“It did look very friendly, I must say,” he told Fox News’ senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy ahead of the President-elect’s meeting with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, The Hill reports.
He added: “I didn’t realise how friendly it looked. I saw it on your wonderful network, just a little while ago before I came in, and I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other. And we probably do’.”
Trump also said: “We have little different philosophies, right? I don’t know, we just got along.
“But I got along with everybody on that. You know, we met backstage before we went on, and I thought it was a beautiful service, but we all got along very well.”
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— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid)
The President-elect did not reveal what was discussed.
Lip-reading expert Jeremy Freeman has .
In one moment captured on camera, the expert claimed that confided: “I’ve pulled out of that. It’s the conditions. Can you imagine that?”
The specifics of what he was referring to remain unclear.
Trump then tells Obama, as claimed by the expert: “I can’t talk, we have to find a quiet place. Sometimes this is a matter of importance and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it, certainly, today”. Obama could be seen nodding in agreement.