The disturbing incident unfolded in front of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial just before 5:30 p.m. – at the same time Trump, 78, was arriving at the Capitol Building.

On Thursday, late President Carter is set to depart the U.S. Capitol at 9 a.m. and travel to the Washington National Cathedral for a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. followed by the National Funeral Services at 10 a.m. Then, Carter and his family will return to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where they will board back to Georgia.

United States Capitol Police have identified the man arrested ... elect Trump was paying his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who was lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington ...

Late President Jimmy Carter's State Funeral ends Thursday in Washington, D.C., and Georgia, according to the United States Capitol Police.

The coffin of former President Jimmy Carter was transported on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol Rotunda, where Vice President Kamala Harris said his works “speak for him louder than any tribute we can offer.

"Our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete," the police said in a thread on X. "Three knives were also found in the bag, along with the machete.

The 39th U.S. president was ceremoniously brought from the U.S. Navy Memorial to the Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, Jan. 7, so that mourners can pay their respectsJimmy Carter has arrived at the United States Capitol one last time.

When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s, he cited “humane considerations.

The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the Capitol Rotunda. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lay in the Capitol in 1972. Police officers killed in 1998 while protecting the Capitol also lay in state there. Sen. John McCain lay in state after his death earlier this year.

Former President Jimmy Carter is currently lying in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as the nation honors the 39th president.

Capitol police have identified the 35-year-old man accused of trying to light his spray-painted car on fire near where former President Carter was lying in state.