Donald Trump ‘more highly engaged’ with Obama than Melania at Carter funeral

President-elect Donald Trump (middle) sat next to ex-President Barack Obama (left) and his wife Melania Trump (right) at the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter (Pictures: AFP/Getty Images)

President-elect Donald Trump seemed ‘more highly engaged’ with ex-President Barack Obama whom he’s sparred with, than his wife Melania, at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, body language experts say.

During Carter’s state funeral which brought together all five living US presidents, Trump spent several minutes speaking and laughing with Obama while sitting next to him.

It was surprising given how much Trump and Obama criticized each other in the past.

Trump and Obama had ‘more highly engaged interaction and friendlier than what we saw with Melania and (Donald) Trump,’ body language expert Chris Ulrich told Metro on Thursday.

Ulrich, founder of CU in the Moment, said that when Trump and Melania ‘do finally talk in he end, it does have some of that friendliness in it’, but that the couple’s ‘normal kind of presence around each other is respectfully cordial… not heartfelt or close’.

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