The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.

Former Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton will skip the traditional inaugural luncheon for President-elect Trump, though they plan to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Michelle Obama will also be absent.

Pictures shared on social media by the vice president and by the Carter Center prominently showed other past presidents in attendance.

It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a funeral.

Former U.S. presidents attended Jimmy Carter's funeral on Thursday. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images There's Al Gore, Mike Pence, Karen Pence, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Laura ...

Presidential scholars say it's not worth it for Bush to get involved in public spats with Trump and say it will only hurt him in the history books.

A state funeral is a gathering of the Washington clans, a convocation of the very establishment that Trump has pledged to destroy in his second term. Carter was not a clubbable man and his self-conscious piety was sometimes an irritant for his successors. He was the uneasiest member of the ex-president’s club apart from Trump.

Kamala Harris ignored Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral on Thursday, as five presidents gathered to mourn their predecessor. The vice-president sat in the row in front of Mr Trump at Washington National Cathedral with her husband Doug Emhoff, and ignored her election rival as she entered.

There were times when Jimmy Carter annoyed his successors in the White House, Democrat and Republican. He never seemed to mind.

Fox network’s flagship panel show blasted former first lady Laura Bush for snubbing President-elect Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral. During Carter’s funeral on Thursday, Bush was seen declining to shake Trump’s hand as he passed her in the aisles.

Carter's casket is making its final journey home to Georgia after tributes are paid to the former president at his state funeral.