Bill Clinton calls Ethel Kennedy the ‘cat’s meow’ who would ‘flirt’ with him in bizarre funeral eulogy

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 thought he was ‘the cat’s meow’ during his speech at her funeral

President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama were also in attendance. 

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.

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.

The joke told by Clinton got some modest laughs from the audience

Ethel Kennedy and Bill Clinton attend an event together in 2006

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.