Vice President Kamala Harris scowled, grimaced, and deliberately avoided President-elect Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral Thursday, walking past without acknowledging the 47th president in what some called an “icy meltdown.”
Aas Trump and former President Barack Obama engaged in friendly conversation at Washington National Cathedral, Harris turned and gave an icy look.
“Ice Princess all the way around. When she was walking she was very robotic. I call that ‘rigidity’ when we see that kind of soldier-like stance,” body language expert Susan Constantine told Fox News.
“She intentionally walked past him and a stride of arrogance and confidence that did not look well on her. It tells me that she walked in there with a chip on her shoulder,” she said.
The tension in Harris’s facial expression, with pursed lips tightened toward the center, demonstrated there was “no love lost” between the 2024 election opponents, Constantine said.
Harris also seemed to glare angrily at First Lady Jill Biden at one point, who has been the source of tension for years.
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KAMALA NOTICES TRUMP CHATTING WITH OBAMA.
She pretends to ignore them, but hates that she's not included.pic.twitter.com/DJH69yvxHC
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 10, 2025
BREAKING: Jill Biden and Kamala Harris completely ignore each other after being forced to sit next to each other.
Jill Biden literally turns her head away as soon as she sits down and looks visibly aggravated even being near Kamala. Wow.
CNN: "You didn't see a typically warm… pic.twitter.com/LJdbAEejWy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 9, 2025
Trump and Obama appeared to enjoy their exchange, largely ignoring other arriving dignitaries including Harris and President Joe Biden.
“They add rapport. There was no doubt about it,” Constantine said. “President Obama would lean his head towards him listening to what Trump had to say. Trump was always in that forward stance. He was always ready, engaging. And he and President Obama felt very much like this with one another that may have made the rest of [the presidential attendees] feel a bit uncomfortable.”
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OBAMA APPARENTLY LIKES THE JOKE FROM TRUMP.
Would be hilarious if Obama actually voted for Trump.pic.twitter.com/hxijMtlQj5
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 10, 2025
Trump addressed the exchange later during a Fox News interview from Florida.
“It did look very friendly, I must say,” Trump said. “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.”
According to forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman, Trump appeared to tell Obama they should find a “quiet place” to discuss “a matter of importance” and suggested Obama call him after the funeral.
“We have little different philosophies, right? I don’t know, we just got along,” Trump said. “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.”
Tensions have remained high after the 2024 election, where Harris lost badly to Trump in November after Biden dropped out of the race following his disastrous performance at the June debate.