Jimmy Carter: Trump Has a Shot At a Nobel Prize

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LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jimmy Carter thinks Donald Trump would be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize if the North Korean negotiations work out.

He says this, even though he believes Trump has already dealt “a damaging blow to peace” in the Middle East by moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and has failed to deliver moral leadership in a way that has increased discrimination and diminished human rights, both at home and around the world.

The former president, who has spent the 37 years since he left office promoting humanitarian causes and monitoring free elections around the world, worries about what’s ahead.

“There’s a general feeling, on a global basis, that democracy has reached its peak and is declining,” Carter told me in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast, when asked about those who see Trump’s presidency as a challenge to democratic ideals. “I hope that that trend will reverse.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/22/jimmy-carter-podcast-interview-trump-religion-2018-218412

[Rorey]

1. Now he can revise it to "had" NT

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Conor McGregor had a shot at beating Floyd Mayweather.

Alas it was not to be.

[oberliner]

3. The rest of his remarks are worth noting

[no_hypocrisy]

4. To quote Cheech and Chong:

Not anymore, Man . . . .

[marble falls]

5. IF. IF. But lets face it, cheetolini was/is not capable of pulling it off....

Kim played him like the dink he is: a shade dinkier than the dink Kim is himself.

[gratuitous]

6. I agree

Donald Trump would also be worthy of a MacArthur Genius Grant if he came up with a self-driving $10,000 automobile that actually worked and ran on pig manure. I deem both of those accomplishments as equally likely.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Jimmy Carter always was just a little bit too nice...

[genxlib]

8. They really should change the font for that one word.

"IF" should be in 30 point type.

There is an old saying that it is the biggest word in the English language. Never was that more true than here.