U.S. President Donald Trump says he intends to attend the funeral services of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Trump responded to the question about Carter's funeral during a brief appearance with waiting journalists at his Mar-a-Lago get-away in Florida on New Year's Eve. Seated on a couch in front of the resort's ballroom, where he and supporters were about to ring in 2020, Trump was clad in a formal tuxedo.Asked if he was planning to attend Carter's funeral, Trump replied, "I will be; I will be."The nation's 39th president died Sunday at the age of 95.Earlier in the session, a reporter asked Trump if he expected any possible ceasefire to hold in the brutal war that has so