Why we wouldn't see a president like Jimmy Carter today | DW News

[@killroy8976]

As someone from the USA I have unique pride in Jimmy Carter. Although he may not have been the most effective President (largely due to the circumstances of his time in office rather than a lack of competence) he was truly a GREAT man. He should be remembered as a symbol of the decency that every US politician should aspire to!

[@etow8034]

All one term president did not go to war to appease the Military Industrial Complex ...Donald Trump was the other one !

[@The_Dude6789]

Jimmy began desert storm which perpetuated a war that till this day persists and you say he's good. How long has your head been in sand.

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

People prefer a bad person who has a more effective policy than a decent person with less effective policy. People prefer hawks over doves, as this comment section shows, but I would choose a dove over a hawk any day of the week. Rest in peace, sir.

[@krollpeter]

Today he would be needed more than ever. But now people love people who are the exact opposite of Mr. Carter.

[@Dillie-dally]

ok philosopher 😂😂😂😂

[@IvanJohnson-w2k]

I would choose a hawk because in nature a hawk always tears a dove apart. All else is words

[@Gavin-Leo--uk]

You yanks chose didys and epstiens good friend to be your next president. But I have starma. Not sure how he got chose. People just can't vote.

[@losttribe9107]

...says the riddler

[@jerry85g7]

Jimmy Carter was a good man. RIP Mr . President

[@jfm148]

Ask Central Americans what they think of this weak coward president

[@The_Dude6789]

Gross u like a war monger. Go read your history.

[@dougclem7711]

Do you think therump would ever build homes with The Habitat for Humanity? Sweat equity is a foreign term never heard in the trump house whole. Rest in Peace President Jimmy Carter.

[@kensanders0088]

Well said !

[@extraterrestrialfascisti7625]

leaving your parent's basement and getting a job is alien to you

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

Don’t see biden doing anything for the homeless

[@GammaW]

@@JeffEbe-te2xs too bad they were comparing carter and trump and not talking about ol' joe

[@XifaXD]

If being president is so easy, why don’t you run?

[@Alpha-Cheeno]

Thank you for introducing homemade peanut butter to the White House's haute cuisine.

[@akapilka]

Good person, bad politician.

[@scroggins100]

A real honest gentleman and probably the last President to be so. RIP Sir.

[@jfm148]

Decent? He was a coward friendly to the soviets. Central America was given to Castro because of him.

[@Samayil_2024]

Irony, His department of education is going to be dismantled...

[@JohnDoe-pk2hs]

And yet they want to import engineers.

[@charlest2858]

Will Not happen

[@jakebe4915]

When Ted Kennedy ran against Carter, it was over. These were tough inflationary, gas outage, hostage, times here. As a Democrat, I voted for Reagan because of Carter's incompetence. Kennedy should have taken the primary.

[@afaqanwar2500]

Carter great president

[@jfm148]

A coward with the soviets if you ask me. Inflation was his legacy. A total failure as a politician.

[@losttribe9107]

Two things can be true at the same time - good person and horrible president.

[@extraterrestrialfascisti7625]

I was around when Carter was president and my memories of him are a lot different. But he was the only president to survive a sea borne rabbit attack

[@eddenoy321]

1976: Jimmy Carter, humanity and integrity 2024: Donald Trump, greed,ego, and the billionaire club We need to kiss our butts good bye. There is no more hope left.

[@wynetsang]

Democratic politic is a nasty arena for Jimmy Carter. He was lucky to survive so long.

[@BerkshireCountyGuy]

BS, it takes a Carter to get a Reagan. A Obama to get a Trump and a Biden to get a Trump.

[@markushaahr9194]

Or a Bush to get an Obama? Very much agreed, though obviously that isn’t the case.

[@MariemBenkhadher]

انا نعزي انفسنا بذهاب السيد جيمي كارتر إلى ربه .نكس علم امريكا.اسكنه ربه فسيح جناته و انك لبطل من الأبطال الديمقراطيون.رحمك ربنا .انتم السابقون و نحن اللاحقون.🧢🧢🦅🦅

[@keepcalm7453]

Great analysis! 🙌❤

[@Tajikproud-fg2pr]

too late

[@subrahmanyansankaran249]

He did not handle Iran situation well, did not act tough. A leader should not have allowed the radical regime in Iran to get a message of weakness

[@Pashazeco]

The US Empire supported the dictator in Iran, how about that?

[@kensanders0088]

He handled the Iran hostage situation with best intentions. The helicopter crash was bad luck, but the real problem was the Reagan campaign made a covert secret agreement with Iran for releasing frozen Bank assets and supplying Iran with arms, guns, military equipment, if Iran would hold off releasing hostages until after Regan won the presidency. A quid pro quo

[@ciaranbrk]

Iran was none of his business. I don’t think Carter wanted to send you a soldiers to die in another middle eastern war when is genuinely wasn’t a US problem.

[@krollpeter]

Nobody is flawless, everyone makes mistakes. Overall, his positives amount to so much more, than his flaws.

[@subrahmanyansankaran249]

@@krollpeter He should have won a second term then. He did not, in handling Iran, a very important adversary, he showed he was not strong enough.

[@ghostrider13bg]

My favourite US president, probably the best person of them all.

[@tonymnQuan]

This is very mundane coverage of a great human being.

[@exodus888]

one of the few us presidents with honor n integrity brandon will soon join carter

[@nordan00]

😂

[@JohnDoe-pk2hs]

So will Trump.

[@eddenoy321]

Who cares ? Biden and Trump are nothing compared to Carter.

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

I remember the soviets and cubans advancing in Latin America and the Caribbean during Carter and all what he could said was "respect human rights", pathetic. Thank God for Ronald Reagan

[@SunisaSeeson]

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[@SunisaSeeson]

❤ดารผศึกษา

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

Yes, President Carter was my first voting experience. I was 18, and he was going to legalize cannabis, lol. Oh, priorities of youth.

[@DOWNUNDER.]

Blah blah blah blah

[@UKyawMoe-i4c]

HAPPYNEWYEAR2025ALLbeautifullgoodlucky

[@Free-flyBE]

Good points: he was too good for politics & rarely hear a left-winger speak of their strong faith in the Lord

[@ssir5927]

There was nothing leftist about Jimmy Carter.

[@Free-flyBE]

@ssir5927 not a radical L like today:/

[@simguns8388]

He wad a good man but a terrible president. I regret coring for him in 76.

[@erfansedighicharstoon]

he was to terrible for the politics and created khomeini

[@psylinx]

Goodbye, sir. I hope that you were surrounded by all of your loved ones when you passed. George Davis

[@יהודהסיימונס]

Carter was a terrible president, no wonder DW loves him..

[@Spectre-mf9vs]

You wouldn't see a president like Jimmy Carter today because America found it's balls...

[@larrymunn5279]

Definitely not how the world outside your nation views it. And honestly? It's mind boggling that you can't imagine why.

[@user-os7pm7fj7d]

More like we lost our brains

[@theowlsarenotwhattheyseem476]

The media outlets are being bought up by billionaires and real journalism is disappearing. The political process has been thouroughly corrupted by money. It's the dawn of the age of neo-feudalism. You have lost your country, but you aren't aware of it yet...

[@construccion1]

A.listet

[@ValinPrezkowski]

Stood on the sidewalk one afternoon in WDC and watched Carter’s entourage drive by. He actually had his window down and was watching the world go by. He looked directly at me. I’ve never seen a lonelier look on a human being. Carter was a pathetic president.

[@markushaahr9194]

Carter is an example to You can’t be a good Human being, and a good king. One has to choose one or the other, every time.

[@yensteel]

Can agree. Some kings have been good and it cost them. King Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the brother of the well-known Napoleon was an ethical one. Loved by his people. He didn't even know the dutch language of Holland when he was starting his rule. His reign last that long. He was supposed to be the puppet king of Napoleon and refused to send troops for Napoleon. So he was exiled. Snuck back in with a disguise and people who recognized him cheered for him. But that got him kicked out again. Napoleon commented: ″Brother, when they say of some king or other that he is good, it means that he has failed in his rule.″

[@GammaW]

Ah yes the classic "you must be a bad person to rule" axiom 🙄

[@hummingbirdee9389]

If CARTER was sooo goood, why didn't he win another term??? 🤔🤨🧐

[@krollpeter]

Because the voters are dumb?

[@nordan00]

He did a lot of damage!

[@mrtee3477]

Sleepy Joe still alive?

[@RajatDuttaSocialMediaHotShot]

The Most USELESS American President of the 20th Centruey ... 😀