Jimmy Carter Was the Anti-Trump Who Made America Great | Carter served in the Navy, won the Nobel Prize, fought for civil rights, human rights, and environmental preservation. Trump, the opposite.

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22 comments

  1. Please tell me Trump will not be welcome at his funeral.

  2. Trump played three varsity sports in high school, but dodged the draft because of a foot condition.

    > “a former high school classmate says Trump was so athletic he even could have turned pro in baseball”

  4. Carter did fight for human rights ? He let the aha of iran a dictator escape trial from the Iranian revolution. 

  5. We should all bury the hatchet, in Trump’s cranium.

  6. To me, the way the US has changed in the last 50 years is frightening. It started with the welfare for the rich trickle-down theory of the Reagon era and got worse. I can only hope the USA matures someday and catches up with the rest of the world. Healthcare is one of too many examples to list here. Happy New Years my friends!!!!

  7. Let’s not forget his volunteer work including building homes for Habitat for Humanity.

  8. Carter was elected governor after campaigning with George Wallace and sending out a flyer with a pic of him with his arms around black members of the Atlanta Hawks—Carl Sanders—he owned the Hawks at the time

  9. Carter helped stop a Nuclear plant from going tits up too

  10. Carter was a good man but a terrible President. That is his legacy.

  11. He also had moral clarity on the Palestinian rights issue, which he didn’t shy away from expressing knowing fully well the potential backlash that he would receive as a former US president. He was just a good human.

  12. And spent his post presidency helping those less fortunate. Years building homes and other charity work. Not 5 minute or single day photo op. Not running around enriching himself. Not saying he didnt benefit from being president but he gave back to communities using his status to help.

  13. He also worked building houses for those that need it even at an old age. A job that rich boy like Trump would never willingly do and would claim as beneath him. The difference between the two is night and day, with one being an individual that represents selflessness vs selfishness.

  14. I always wonder how different things might have been had that helicopter not crashed in the desert in 1980. He probably gets reelected instead of Reagan winning the presidency. What could have been.

  15. Also has a nuclear engineering degree. Also taught Sunday school. Also made lots of people aware of Habitat for Humanity that had no idea it existed, etc.

  16. Yeah but Trump is richer, has had more bankruptcies and marriages to hot babes and gotten his wanker wet from strange far more than Carter, so that ought to count for something.

    Plus he’s a convicted felon, so, street cred . . .

  17. Jimmy was a great man. As a president, his role in ending the tension between Israel and Egypt stands out.

  18. Trump rapes, cheats, steals, and is a fascist. Quite the contrast to Carter indeed.

  19. Notice how in all the lists of Carter’s accomplishments, none of them cover anything he did WHILE he was President?

    Carter’s presidential legacy is the abandonment of FDR, New Deal Democratic politics, the birth of Neoliberal capitalist third-way politics, and the prelude of the destruction of the American social safety nets that would eventually manifest in Regan.

    And that’s not even covering the war crimes he shares with every other President.

    Carter was a shit President who played a heavy part of what brought us to Trump and this entire “Republican vs. Diet Republican” paradigm we now have dragging us down by our necks.

    I’m not saying he was a bad person. But let’s stop pretending he was some amazing President. He wasn’t. He took the Nixon scandal and turned it into a Regan landslide, while destroying the DNC’s platform and putting us where the party is right now.

    Carter was the Biden to Nixon’s Trump (and Regan’s Trump.) He is fortunate that his legacy was built after he left office, because his time in office was very reminiscent of the failures of the Biden administration.

  21. Well, according to my republican father in law, Carter is the worst president in history, other than Biden.

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