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Donald Trump takes aim at Jimmy Carter on his milestone 100th birthday
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Donald Trump takes aim at Jimmy Carter on his milestone 100th birthday

Not only was Donald Trump the only living president — current or former — not to deliver a video message for Jimmy Carter on Tuesday in honor of the 39th president’s milestone 100th birthday, but he made no mention of the historic event, despite he had spoken about Carter’s presidency in an interview. an attempt to criticize Joe Biden.

On Tuesday, the Carter Center shared excerpts from endorsements from Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden that were shown last month during Carter’s birthday concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. The concert, a benefit that has so far raised $1.2 million for the Carter Center’s mission to “build peace, fight disease and build hope,” will air Tuesday on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden also posted about Carter on their official social media accounts. At the time of publication, Trump had not even done so.

Instead, while campaigning in Waunakee, Wisconsin, Trump used the Biden administration as a way to mention Carter — and not in a positive way.

“Jimmy Carter is the luckiest man because Jimmy Carter is considered a brilliant president by comparison,” Trump said, after calling Biden “the worst.”

Carter, who left office in 1981, has had the longest post-presidency of any former commander in chief, and is the only former president to live to be 100. In February 2023 he was admitted to hospice.

Surrounded by family and friends in his backyard Tuesday as he was greeted with a military flyover, Carter downplayed his birthday. What’s more important to him, he has made clear through his family, is that he can vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.