Trump praises Carter, slams media


In a must-read interview with the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, former President Jimmy Carter offered Donald Trump his services to negotiate with North Korea’s leader. But her sit-down with the Georgia native at his home in Plains was chock-full of other tidbits.
The 93-year-old repeated that he and his wife Rosalynn voted for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in last year’s Democratic primary. He questioned whether Russia’s attempts to interfere in the election changed “enough votes, or any votes” to matter. And he knocked some of former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions.
We’re including some of his choice quotes, but please read the entire New York Times interview here.
On Trump and the media:
“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.”
On whether the nation’s image in the world has soured under Trump:
“Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump. The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”
On Obama’s Middle East policy:
“He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that.”
On the debate over removing Confederate war memorials:
“That’s a hard one for me. My great-grandfather was at Gettysburg on the Southern side and his two brothers were with him in the Sumter artillery. One of them was wounded but none of them were killed. I never have looked on the carvings on Stone Mountain or the statues as being racist in their intent. But I can understand African-Americans’ aversion to them, and I sympathize with them. But I don’t have any objection to them being labeled with explanatory labels or that sort of thing.”



President Donald Trump on Saturday praised former President Jimmy Carter for saying the news media are unusually harsh toward him.
"Just read the nice remarks by President Jimmy Carter about me and how badly I am treated by the press (Fake News)," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Thank you Mr. President!"
Under a week ago, Carter expressed some sympathy for the current Oval Office occupant and how he is covered by today's press.
"I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about," Carter told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. “I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”
The 39th president's comments came in an interview with Dowd that largely focused on whether Carter could persuade Trump to send the elder statesman to North Korea as a diplomatic envoy to try to cool tensions between the two countries.
Carter was also critical of Trump's handling of race relations, saying Trump is probably "exacerbating" tensions inside the country but that the president may not be doing so "deliberately."
An outsider who won the White House based in part on his peanut farming roots, Carter was the most complimentary of the small group of living former presidents who have spoken recently on the state of the country.
While refusing to criticize him by name, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush gave speeches on Oct. 19 that appeared to blame Trump for increasing polarization and warned that his skepticism on issues like free trade and embrace of nationalism run counter to traditional American values.
Before tweeting his praise of Carter, Trump complained that the same media continue to ignore positive economic growth. Trump hailed the "GREAT" GDP numbers released on Friday, which showed a 3 percent spurt in the third quarter (from July through September). Economic experts had expected growth to dip slightly as a result of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. 


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