Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting
- 7 years ago
Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting
“So I obeyed his orders and his wishes.”
Saying that he did not think “there’s much hope now
that Israelis will ever permit a two-state solution,” he knocked Obama on the Middle East: “He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that.”
Recalling that “we have 22 votes in our family and Obama got all 22 of them,” he complained
that Obama had “refused” to talk to North Korea more, and then Carter lamented the fact that Obama joined in the bombing of Yemen, which Carter says is the most interesting place he’s ever been.
I wondered about his relationship with other presidents, given his body language in the famous picture where he stood off to the side, which he told Brian Williams was deliberate because “I feel
that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents.”
“I had my best relationship, when he was in office, with George H. W. Bush,” he said.
“I’ve seen in the Arab world, including the Palestinian world,” he said, “the high esteem that they pay to a member of one’s own family.”
Indeed, Carter was harder on Obama during the interview than he was on Trump.
“I would go, yes,” he said, wearing a big “JC” belt buckle
and sipping coffee in his ranch house, which is chockablock with Carter family paintings and with furniture he made himself, including his four-poster bed.
“So I obeyed his orders and his wishes.”
Saying that he did not think “there’s much hope now
that Israelis will ever permit a two-state solution,” he knocked Obama on the Middle East: “He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that.”
Recalling that “we have 22 votes in our family and Obama got all 22 of them,” he complained
that Obama had “refused” to talk to North Korea more, and then Carter lamented the fact that Obama joined in the bombing of Yemen, which Carter says is the most interesting place he’s ever been.
I wondered about his relationship with other presidents, given his body language in the famous picture where he stood off to the side, which he told Brian Williams was deliberate because “I feel
that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents.”
“I had my best relationship, when he was in office, with George H. W. Bush,” he said.
“I’ve seen in the Arab world, including the Palestinian world,” he said, “the high esteem that they pay to a member of one’s own family.”
Indeed, Carter was harder on Obama during the interview than he was on Trump.
“I would go, yes,” he said, wearing a big “JC” belt buckle
and sipping coffee in his ranch house, which is chockablock with Carter family paintings and with furniture he made himself, including his four-poster bed.