President Bush's playful interactions with the Obamas at otherwise solemn events have a history of going viral

Obama, the 44th president, attends 60th inauguration solo as former First Lady Michelle Obama skips Trump’s inauguration

Ahead of entering the rotunda, a Washington Post correspondent shared a video of former President Obama and Bush joking with each other. As they lined up for their entrance, a Washington staffer asked Bush, jokingly, if he was going to behave. Obama, who was right behind George Bush in line, answered for him sarcastically, saying. “Nope.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence is in attendance at Trump’s inauguration, his wife, former second lady Karen, is not. Karen Pence snubbed the Trumps earlier this month at Carter’s funeral, where she ignored Melania Trump’s efforts to shake her hand.

For the second time in less than two weeks, Americans watching a major national event attended by all the living former presidents and their spouses watched Barack Obama enter a room alone. Michelle Obama’s team had already announced her expectation to miss the Jan.

George W. Bush gave fellow former president Barack Obama a friendly belly tap at the Jan. 9 funeral of Jimmy Carter, and the internet was obsessed with the viral moment.

The Office of George W. Bush said he and former first lady Laura Bush are also attending. Michelle Obama was the only spouse absent at last week's funeral service at Washington National Cathedral ...

George W. Bush gave fellow former president Barack Obama a friendly belly tap at the Jan. 9 funeral of Jimmy Carter, and the internet was obsessed with the viral moment.

Like our Forever First Lady Michelle Obama, you may not have wanted to be a guest at now-President Donald Trump’s inauguration. But odds are you wouldn’t mind being served just a little tea about what former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were talking about while watching Trump take his oath of office for the second time.

A clip of Bush and Obama went similarly megaviral earlier this month after Bush was caught on camera belly-tapping his successor at Jimmy Carter’s funeral service. Former first lady Michelle Obama, whose own interactions with Bush (despite their political differences) have previously gone viral, stayed away.

A lip reader has taken to social media to reveal exactly what Barack Obama and George W. Bush said at Donald Trump’s inauguration.