Thought about Biden, Carter, and Trump clash for 16 seconds
President Biden took a shot at President-elect Donald Trump. He said Trump could learn about "decency" from the late Jimmy Carter. Conservatives online weren’t pleased.
Carter died on Sunday at 100 years old. He was the longest-living American president in history. When a reporter asked what Trump should take from Carter’s legacy, Biden answered, “Decency.”
“Decency, decency, decency,” Biden said. “Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?”
Radio host and ex-Washington Post writer Hugh Hewitt cried foul. He thought Biden was being unfair. Hewitt blamed the media for a “cover-up.”
“Is it ‘decent’ to have deceived the American public for years about your condition and to do so via a complicit and complacent legacy media?” Hewitt wrote on X. He called it the “greatest cover-up in modern American political history” and slammed the media for
"Instead of showing Carter's honesty, Biden lied for years and then pardoned his own son after repeatedly denying that he would ever do so during the campaign. He pardoned his son for any crimes committed over a ten-year period, including potential crimes that many believe implicated the President himself in the multimillion influence-peddling operation," legal analyst Jonathan Turley wrote in a thread on X.
"I pray that he found faith, because that is not only his only hope for salvation, it is all of our hope. Being merely decent doesn't cut it for him or anyone else," animator Doug TenNapel wrote.
After serving a term as Georgia’s governor, Carter made history in October by becoming the first former president to turn 100. The Democrat was elected in 1976, only to lose his 1980 reelection bid decisively to Ronald Reagan. His wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, passed away last year.