Trump takes jab at Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday
Even on former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday, Trump could not pass up reprising his longstanding jab at the Georgia Democrat.
In Waunakee, Wisconsin, Trump on Tuesday was lambasting Democratic President Joe Biden, calling him “the worst president,” and declaring Carter “the happiest man because Carter is considered a brilliant president by comparison.”
It was hollow praise for the one-term president defeated for reelection in 1980 by Ronald Reagan, but who has gone on to become a respected world figure since his presidency.
All without even a nod to Carter’s birthday and status as the longest-living former president, who has also been living in hospice care for 19 months.
Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia where he lives in the same one-story home he and Rosalynn built in the early 1960s, before his first election to the Georgia state Senate. The former first lady, also from Plains, died last November at 96.
About 25 family members filled his home Tuesday, enjoying cupcakes on the front lawn while antique World War II planes flew over in his honor.
Chip Carter said his father’s next goal is to make it to Election Day.
“He’s plugged in,” Carter said in an interview. “I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, No, I’m trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.”