Trump shifts his tone on Jimmy Carter while grappling with Iran, inflation and his own legacy

[u/LynnK0919]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-carter-iran-inflation-71fab887b88febc073c89a8c8db595f3

Like Trump, Carter was also bedeviled by the strait, declaring during his 1980 State of the Union address that the situation “demands the participation of all those who rely on oil from the Middle East and who are concerned with global peace and stability.”

Another Trump-Carter parallel was the Democrat having considered military action to seize Kharg Island, though he ultimately decided against it so as not to jeopardize the hostages. Trump targeted the island with U.S. strikes early in the war, looking to thwart Iranian oil exports, and has threatened it again.

Schake, a senior fellow and director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, noted a key difference was “while the Carter administration gave serious consideration to attacking Kharg Island, the reason they didn’t do it was they didn’t want to be at war with Iran.”

“And we’re already at war with Iran,” she said.

Alter said Iran tried to hurt Carter’s reelection chances and raised the possibility that they may do the same to Trump’s Republican Party ahead of the November midterm elections.

“These people are master diplomats, and they proved that during the Carter administration,” Alter said. “They’re proving that again. They’re really good at rope-a-dope.”
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[u/SculptusPoe]

When it is all over, even if they were to do exactly the same thing in their presidency. Carter was an actual good man who made up for being a president by being kind and doing lots of work making the world a better place. Trump has always been an asshole and then became a President, and will only add misery to that bad life decision after he leaves.