Former President Bill Clinton had a bizarre moment while eulogizing the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and Kennedy family members.
During his remarks at the Kennedy matriarch’s funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what he really thought of Robert Kennedy’s widow.
‘I thought your mother was the cat’s meow,’ Bill said about the late 96-year-old.
‘She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways,’ he continued to cautious laughs from the audience.
Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a memorial service for Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, USA, 16 October 2024. He joked that Kennedy used to ‘flirt’ with him and shared he thought she was ‘the cat’s meow’ during his speech at her funeral
The former president pressed on, seemingly making another joke about how she had 11 children.
'I remember once I said 'you know we're not at replacement population anymore and all the politics are anti-immigrant, what are we gonna do?''
'We need more people like you,' he recounted joking to Kennedy about her large brood.
Ethel, who died aged 96 on Thursday last week following a stroke, was surrounded by family members when she died in a Boston hospital.
In total, she had 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren in addition to her own 11 kids, her son Robert Kennedy Jr. posted on X last week.
Clinton recalled a joke he made with Ethel Kennedy about how the U.S. should follow her example and have many children to combat falling birth and immigration rates. She had 11 children, 34 grandchildren and 24-great-grandchildren
RFK Jr. attended the event with his wife Cheryl Hines despite his cozy relationship with Donald Trump and his phone sex affair with a journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
The former presidential candidate, who has since backed Donald Trump, has reportedly been on the outs with his family due to his support for the Republican, which some Kennedy's likened to a 'betrayal.'
However that beef may have been quashed, at least slightly, when RFK Jr. and Hines attended at private ceremony for Ethel Kennedy on Monday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama were in attendance in addition to the huge Kennedy clan.
Former Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush were not spotted at the funeral.
Clinton, who has had his fair share of salacious headlines regarding his scandal with Monica Lewinsky and later reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein, did not shy away from landing the line about his past flame with the Kennedy.
The moment though light-hearted is sure to raise eyebrows after Clinton has had a series of awkward moments.
The joke told by Clinton got some modest laughs from the audience
Ethel Kennedy and Bill Clinton attend an event together in 2006
Noticeably absent from the Kennedy funeral were former presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush
Earlier this week he came under fire for having his facts wrong when trying to blame Donald Trump for the death of 22-year-old college student Laken Riley who was murdered while jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens.
The Democrat claimed Trump stymied a bipartisan bill on the border.
However, it turned out to be an extraordinary gaffe as the migrant Jose Ibarra actually entered the United States from Venezuela illegally in September 2022 under the Biden-Harris administration.
He was arrested for the murder of Laken Riley on February 22 after being vetted and released by the current administration.
'[Kamala Harris] is the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration any given year to a certain point and then made sure we gave people a decent place to live, didn't divide people from their children. And we did total vetting before people got in. Now, Trump killed the bill,' he stated.
U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.S. President Barack Obama and former U.S. President President Bill Clinton attend the memorial service for Ethel Kennedy at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, U.S., October 16, 2024
'You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you? They made an ad about it, a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant?' Clinton asked.
Clinton spoke about the issue immigration and Riley's high-profile murder on the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia, but mistakenly inferred that Harris's past support of the bill would have prevented the death of Riley, which it wouldn't have given the timing disparity.
Additionally, earlier this year Bill Clinton was described in newly-unsealed court documents as 'a key person' in the lives of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who enjoyed a 'close relationship with the pair'.
The former president has long insisted that his connections to Epstein were on a professional basis, to aid the work of the Clinton Foundation.
He insisted in 2019 that during his four trips on Epstein's private jet, in 2002 and 2003, he was always accompanied by a retinue of staff and Secret Service agents.
But court documents from June 2016 - part of a defamation suit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts - paint a different picture, after another document saw Epstein accuse Clinton of 'liking them young.'
Roberts, in her filing, is seeking permission from the judge to force more people to sit for a deposition, to bolster her case.