Trump's praise of Carter in death after jeering him in life deepens...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : (AP Photo)"While I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he truly loved and respected our Country, and all it stands for," Trump wrote in a post on his social media network.
69% : Yet Trump is planning to attend Carter's funeral, and his statement marking the former president's passing was gracious.
65% : Trump never accepted his defeat to Biden in 2020 and shunned the typical post-presidency efforts to become an elder statesman and burnish his legacy with new endeavors.
63% : "Trump also called Carter "a good man" who was "very consequential, far more than most Presidents, after he left the Oval Office.
61% : "Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and media historian, said that, for candidate Trump, "Carter became the perfect metaphor with which to critique the Biden administration" given the parallel battles the Democrats faced on inflation and unrest in the Middle East.
56% : Roessner, who sat down with Carter for an extended interview in 2014, said both he and Trump successfully presented themselves as authentic in an often otherwise flighty and transactional world of politics.
51% : In 2014, Trump mistakenly referred to the former president at a conservative conference as "the late, great Jimmy Carter."
46% : "Carter´s was certainly a message of love and moral reform while Trump has offered a more divisive kind of politics of hate," she said.
43% : "Much of what Trump says is shaped by the 1980s," Chervinksy said.
41% : He offered this advice to Trump in 2019: "Keep the peace, promote human rights and tell the truth.
36% : His death means flags at the White House will be at half-staff when Trump regains the presidency on Jan. 20.
30% : Starkly different in their political beliefs and personal lives, in their actions as president and after leaving office, Carter and Trump will again be intertwined as the memory and legacy of one linger while the other is inaugurated for a second time.
30% : "Trump, the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president, has been married three times and was convicted of making hush money payments to cover up an extramarital affair with a porn actor.
26% : Indeed, Trump has already expressed annoyance at Biden's directing flags be at half-staff in Carter's honor for his inauguration, posting that "The Democrats are all 'giddy'" about it.
25% : Yet, as candidates and as presidents, Carter and Trump both knew how to best maximize media coverage and were both critical of the media, Roessner said, especially political reporters they viewed as out of touch.
25% : Despite what unfolded post-presidency, Carter´s deflated reputation when he left the White House in 1981 seemed frozen for Trump, who often uses that decade of his own rise to fame as a touchstone.
24% : The following year, Trump called Carter to speak about China.
23% : In 2020, Trump posted on social media that he had "lined up 52 Iranian sites as targets" if Iran retaliated for the targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
22% : But she said Carter and Trump share a similar political ethos as outsiders who stoked populism and challenged and vexed the political establishment.
19% : While Trump was president, Carter suggested that an investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election might "show that Trump didn´t actually win," even though the investigation never came close to substantiating that baseless claim.
10% : Trump said during a G20 Summit in 2019 that Carter was nice but "a terrible president.
7% : "Carter, though, never went nearly as far as Trump, who has branded the press the "enemy of the people," dismisses factual reporting he doesn´t like as "fake news" and criticizes journalists at his rallies harshly enough to spur loud booing from the audience.
6% : WASHINGTON (AP) - Living to 100 let Jimmy Carter fulfill his wish to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris against Republican Donald Trump in November.
6% : Carter also criticized Trump for withholding U.S. funds to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic.
5% : Trump singled out Carter for intense criticism during the 2024 campaign, repeatedly mocking him to fire up supporters.

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