This is a breaking news alert….President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100.
BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter passes away at 100
He lived long enough to see Joe Biden become the worst President in history https://t.co/oQtkRoe29W
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 29, 2024
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, has died at 100 years old https://t.co/niercAGIAl
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 29, 2024
Fox News had more details:
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer whose vision of a “competent and compassionate” government propelled him into the White House, died on Sunday, according to local media. He was 100.
The news was announced by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday. Carter’s death follows the passing of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19, 2023 at the age of 96 with her family by her side at the Carter home in Plains, Georgia, just days after she had been admitted to hospice care.
The late former president himself had entered hospice care in February 2023. Carter survived for years after he had a “small mass” removed from his liver in early August 2015 and later that month announced he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body.
The Carter family had a history of cancer and the former president lost his father, brother, and two sisters to pancreatic cancer. His mother had breast cancer, which later spread to her pancreas.
ADVERTISEMENTJason Carter, Carter’s grandson, had announced in May that he believed the former president was “coming to the end” of his life’s journey. But the former president hung on much longer.
The soft-spoken leader with a signature Georgia drawl saw his single term in the Oval Office clouded by an economic downturn at home and a hostage crisis abroad.
His post-presidency life was marked by a very visible dedication to service, but also a series of sometimes controversial moves as he continued to wade into foreign affairs, particularly as it related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Carter met with the leadership of terrorist group and Palestinian representative Hamas in 2009 and 2015. He reprimanded Israel for its operations against Hamas in 2014, saying there was “no justification in the world for what Israel is doing.”
James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 in Plains, Georgia. Plains was a farming town and Carter’s father was a farmer, a background that helped instill in him a love of the land – and the working and lower class people who tilled it – that would follow him throughout his personal and professional life.
But Carter initially sought a path outside the dirt of Plains and, after attending the U.S. Naval Academy, he served as a submariner in the post-World War II navy, eventually attaining the rank of lieutenant.
Former President Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer whose vision of a "competent and compassionate" government led him to the White House, only to be ousted a few years later in the Reagan revolution, has died. He was 100. https://t.co/rBWYKeUcuF pic.twitter.com/lkNAwdcXT8
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 29, 2024
It’s hard to cover Jimmy Carter without immediately thinking of this extremely strange photo….
Do you remember this?
Does this look real to you?
Jimmy Carter has died. This was probably the strangest picture of him. It never looked real. pic.twitter.com/QOIeUdnrze
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) December 29, 2024
I still don’t buy the claim that it was just a “strange perspective”.
This does not appear normal to me.
MORE HERE (from 2021):
The Bidens Take Strange Photo With The Carters
Whatever happened to "wearing masks saves lives"?
Jill and Joe Biden apparently visited former President Jimmy Carter and his wife but the picture they took has social media confused for two reasons.
First, the picture looks absolutely distorted, Joe Biden looks humungous compared to Carter's wife Rosalynne and Jill looks just as big next to Jimmy.
Secondly, the Biden's aren't wearing masks!
Whatever ever happened to "wearing masks saves lives"?
Take a look at the photo yourself, it looks like it was taken inside of a dollhouse:
Have the Carters been miniature people this whole time and we never knew?? pic.twitter.com/lH9ShFljkM
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) May 4, 2021
absolutely transfixed and perplexed by this photo. how are the carters so tiny. why does the room look like a doll house. how is this real. blog tk https://t.co/XxhZGEhzLC
— ghoul (@abigailweinberg) May 4, 2021
The Daily Mail covered the strange photo-op:
President Joe Biden has posed for a maskless indoor photo alongside First Lady Jill Biden, Former President Jimmy Carter, and his wife Rosalynn, despite describing mask wearing as a 'patriotic responsibility.'
The president, who is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, was pictured wearing a mask outside the Carter residence on Thursday, but does not have one on in the photo taken indoors with the elderly Carters.
The latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say vaccinated people can remove masks while outdoors but Biden has said he often wears one outdoors as people come up to chat with him.
'The likelihood of my being outside and people not coming up to me, is not very, very high,' he told NBC's Craig Melvin, in an interview that was taped Thursday at the White House and aired Friday on the Today Show.
On the first day the new guidelines went into effect, Biden wore his mask to make remarks at an outdoor event at the White House that had limited attendance and was socially distanced.
The photo saw both Bidens appearing to loom large over the Carters who were pictured on sitting on two living room chairs.
The photo was taken at the Carter's home in Plains, Georgia last Thursday, 78-year-old President Biden's 100th day in office.
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Jimmy Carter is around 5'10 while Joe Biden is about 5'11 so why do the Bidens look so big?
Many people speculated that the picture was taken by a wide-angle lens, while others believe the photo never took place.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1389550921324142599
Either Jimmy Carter has become a hobbit or "Mr Potato Biden" and the "Dr Biden" are gargantuan humans that were visiting the Shire.
Or they were not even there and Photoshop was used to fake the event just like his presidency. https://t.co/eZnzUQLZfw— Dwightd (@dwightd6) May 4, 2021
Fox News got the scoop too:
A new head-scratching photo of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden posing with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter has social media abuzz over the camera angle where the Bidens look like giants towering over the former first couple.
The Carter Center released the photo of the Bidens visiting the Carters last week at their home in Georgia, where the two couples posed maskless and all smiles.
"We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.!" the Carter Center tweeted late Monday night. "Thank you President and Mrs. Biden!"
The photo drew plenty of eyebrows online as a kneeling Joe Biden appears to dwarf Rosalynn Carter, 93. Meanwhile, Jill Biden is holding the hand of a seated Jimmy Carter, 96, but also looks much bigger than the former president who once stood 5-feet-10-inches tall.
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