Exclusive: Extended Iran Conflict Risks Trump-Carter Comparisons

Is Donald Trump becoming the new Jimmy Carter?

One day President Trump wants to dial down hostilities with Iran. “We’re low-keying” the conflict, he said Sunday. A day…

Christie drops the Jimmy Carter bomb on Trump: ‘Held hostage by Iran’

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is renewing his public beef with President Donald Trump. While the two have a history of going at each other in […]

Christie drops the Jimmy Carter bomb on Trump: ‘Held hostage by Iran’ · American Wire News

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is renewing his public beef with President Donald Trump. While the two have a history of going at each other in the media, despite having been friends at one point in time, the fighting has simmered down recently as the president has taken on a number of important national and international issues. But now Christie is trying to hit Trump where it hurts by comparing him to former President Jimmy Carter on…

Exclusive: Extended Iran conflict risks Trump-Carter comparisons

President Donald Trump and those close to him are increasingly aware that the longer the Iran war stays in the headlines, the more he risks long-term damage to his legacy. Right now, the concern is near-term: Trump is stuck in a stalemate with Iran that threatens to tank Republicans’ chances in the midterms. “Let me refer you to Jimmy Carter,” as one person close to Trump put it, referencing the Iranian hostage crisis that undercut the former pr…

The Jimmy Carter Talk Has Started

Back in March, I pointed to how obsessed Trump was — in an interview done in the wake of his invasion of Venezuela — with avoiding the humiliation Iran imposed on Jimmy Carter. Donald Trump has a pathological need to avoid being seen as he sees Jimmy Carter, a loser, someone who keeps leeching power over the course of an extended crisis. And yet, as he keeps doing things that make that far more likely, just making shit up, everyone makes the obv…