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Former President Jimmy Carter lying in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 7. *Photograph by Aaron Troutman/U.S. Army.*

A second Trump presidency -- the Jimmy Carter antithesis

January 12, 2025

Former President Jimmy Carter was buried on the day (Thursday, Jan. 9) that the United States Supreme Court refused to stay President-elect Donald J. Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money conviction.

Let that sink in. Here was on the one hand a humanitarian and on the other a man whose compassion for the Los Angeles wildfires was crystallized by his calling rival Gov. Gavin Newsom “Newscum.”

And yet, there are plenty of Americans who think Carter, though a great humanitarian, was a poor president, and many Americans who can’t wait to see Trump back in power on Monday, Jan. 20, which is coincidentally Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well as Inauguration Day.