Biden asks Jimmy Carter to give state funeral in Washington

President Joe Biden said he would order a state funeral in Washington for Jimmy Carter, calling the former Democratic president, who died on Sunday, “an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian.”

While the White House did not immediately announce specific plans, state funerals for presidents typically include lying in state at the U.S. Capitol and a memorial service at Washington National Cathedral.

The US stock market is traditionally closed on the day of a president’s funeral. No announcement has been made yet by exchange supervisors.

Biden, President-elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama were among those paying tribute to the Middle East peace efforts and humanitarian work done by Carter long after his presidency, at his funeral in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100. Died at home.

Obama taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church on the Plains “for most of his adult life” from Carter and the Camp David Accords to the former president’s appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the federal bench and his path to the U.S. Supreme Court . ,

“He believed that some things were more important than re-election – things like honesty, respect and compassion,” Obama said in a statement.

Biden’s statement, issued during his year-end vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands, praised Carter’s efforts to “end the disease, build peace, advance civil liberties and human rights, promote free and fair elections, end homelessness, included a tribute to his efforts to provide a home and always advocate”. For the least of us.”

Trump said Carter was a “really good man” who “worked hard to make America a better place and for that I give him my highest respect.”

“While I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he really loved and respected our country,” Trump said on his Truth social platform.

Trump repeatedly referred to Carter during the 2024 election campaign and sought to use him as a reference point for Biden’s presidency.

“Biden is the worst president in the history of our country, worse than Jimmy Carter,” Trump said at a campaign stop in Manhattan in April. “Jimmy Carter is happy because he’s got a great presidency compared to Biden.”

During Trump’s first term in office, Carter criticized Trump, at one point accusing him of being “reckless with the truth” in a 2018 CBS interview. Both Carter and his wife attended Trump’s inauguration in 2017.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – a Republican who clashed with Trump over the state’s 2020 presidential election results – called Carter “a true-servant leader.”

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