Maureen Dowd: At Jimmy Carter's funeral, Donald Trump was narcissist non grata

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump, eager to hang with the cool kids, cosied up to Barack.
67% : President Biden shaded Trump by talking in his eulogy about the homespun Carter's "character, character, character".
65% : Trump may be buoyed by his win, but in this exclusive club, he was largely narcissist non grata.
62% : "Two Corinthians" Trump treats faith, as he does everything, as a transaction, a ploy to get him where he wants to be.
47% : While the centenarian was heralded for his virtue and monogamous 77-year marriage with Rosalynn, Trump was bracing to be sentenced on his vice - falsifying records to cover up an infidelity with a porn star, conducted while Melania was home taking care of her newborn son.
43% : Even as Carter was being praised at his state funeral at the National Cathedral for working tirelessly to eradicate diseases around the globe, Trump was hunting for a disease to pin on immigrants to justify sealing the border.
39% : Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Donald Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office.
38% : Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval OfficeJimmy Carter was exactly where he wanted to be at his funeral on Thursday - at a deliberate remove from his fellow presidents.
28% : He was ahead of the curve in saluting Trump, which Republicans and tech executives have now done en masse, even defending him on his hypocritical relationship with evangelicals - perhaps in a bid to get Trump to send him to North Korea on a diplomatic mission.
21% : Trump maintains his archaic views even as magical neighbourhoods across Los Angeles are being incinerated.
19% : When Brian Williams asked Carter on NBC in 2010 about a striking Oval Office photo of him with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and the Bushes, in which Carter had separated himself, he conceded he felt "superior" to the others because of his stellar post-presidency.
19% : Karen Pence, not over the little matter of Trump shrugging off acolytes' threats to hang her husband at the Capitol, iced Trump in the pews.
17% : But W shook hands with Al Gore, probably still grateful that, unlike Trump with Biden, Gore conceded their whisker-thin election.
16% : W has clearly not changed his opinion of Trump since he famously said, after watching his American Carnage inaugural speech, "That was some weird sh*t."
9% : But Carter and Trump both tended toward the excessive, vain in their own ways; Carter was excessively virtuous, irritating Americans when he was in office with his parsimonious, micromanaging ways and blunt, demoralising truth-telling.
5% : He ignored Trump, who has blamed the younger Bush president for not stopping 9/11 and for the invasion of Iraq, which Trump said "may have been the worst decision" in White House history.
0% : The president-elect regards W, Gore, Hillary, Kamala, Pence, Biden and Carter as losers, but Obama won twice and transcended his party with a personality cult, as Trump did.

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