Jimmy Carter: ‘The Media Have Been Harder On Trump Than Any Other President’

Jimmy Carter is kinda, sorta, halfway defending President Trump.

What a time to be alive.

Carter told the New York Times, “I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about.”

“I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation,” he added.

Wow. Even the second worst president in history gets it.

That’s not all. Carter actually made sense on more than one issue. Take, for instance, his stance on NFL kneelers:

“I think they ought to find a different way to object, to demonstrate. I would rather see all the players stand during the American anthem,” Carter said.

The common sense pretty much ended there. Carter went on to say that Trump is “exacerbating” racial divisions, adding, “But maybe not deliberately.”

Here’s the thing though. A lot of people believe Carter is just kissing up to Trump, because he wants to go on a “diplomatic mission” to North Korea.

“I would go, yes,” Carter said.

I repeat. The 93-year-old former president wants to have a chat with Chubby McDictator. That’s hardly a step above Dennis Rodman.

I told him that the big shots in Washington were terrified about the childish, bellicose tit-for-tat tweeting battle between the Dotard and Little Rocket Man.

 

“I’m afraid, too, of a situation,” he said. “I don’t know what they’ll do. Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong-un. He’s never, so far as I know, been to China.” (Who knows if he made a surreptitious trip.) Carter continued, “And they have no relationship. Kim Jong-il did go to China and was very close to them.”

 

He said that the “unpredictable” Kim Jong-un makes him more nervous than his father, Kim Jong-il, and that if the young leader thinks Trump will act against him, he could do something pre-emptive. “I think he’s now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland,” Carter explained.

 

He said he has talked to Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, who is a good friend, including at Zbigniew Brzezinski’s funeral when McMaster asked to sit next to Carter, but has so far gotten a negative response.

 

“I told him that I was available if they ever need me,” he said.

Pop question: If you had to send either Dennis Rodman or Jimmy Carter on a “diplomatic mission” to North Korea, who would you choose and why?

I think I’d choose Dennis Rodman, which is a testament to my ridiculously low opinion of Jimmy Carter.