I'm amazed at the number of people fretting about a non-existent development (re: Jimmy Carter)

[brooklynite]

"Trump better not go to Carter's funeral!!!"

Why would anyone leap to the conclusion that he's going to be invited, much less has a "right" to attend?

[Takket]

1. I hope the 2016 popular vote winner is right there front row with Obama and Biden

[brooklynite]

4. That seems equally irrelevant...

The Clinton's will attend because they know the Carters, not to send some kind of message about the 2016 election.

[Srkdqltr]

2. We have some expert high jumpers here. that one went into orbit.

[Renew Deal]

3. He'll be invited but I doubt he'll attend

Attending something like this would be out of character for him.

[brooklynite]

5. Again, WHY do you assert that "he'll be invited"?

Being a President doesn't bring with it an automatic right to attend Presidential funerals.

[Renew Deal]

8. The Carters are far more decent than the Trumps

I don't recall them meeting though I believe that Carter attended his inauguration.

[brooklynite]

11. A Government ceremony isn't the same as a funeral.

[tritsofme]

15. There will certainly be a state funeral

And the question of Trump’s attendance will no doubt invite speculation in the press.

What a weird thread.

[msfiddlestix]

22. 1+

[Renew Deal]

18. What's your point?

Here’s an idea. Post a thread when Trump is invited admitting you were wrong. That should make up for the flame war you started.

[Polybius]

33. Trump went to Poppy Bush's funeral

He has said more nasty things about the Bush's than Carter.

[brettdale]

6. I just have a sick feeling in my stomach

That when he passes, Faux News and others are going to be as cruel as they can be.

[Lettuce Be]

7. Or better still, why do they care?

It'd be nice if we'd hear as little as possible about such a small man-child.

[ismnotwasm]

9. lol

[Chautauquas]

10. How high of a number is it?

I haven't seen a lot of that going on. Just a few people.

[debm55]

12. It's a discussion board. People are free to discuss their feelings and opinions on a given subject.

President Carter is the first president I voted for. I admired him then and I always will.

[patricia92243]

20. Yes!

[phylny]

30. My first vote as well, via absentee ballot

because I was away for my first year of college.

[Laffy Kat]

13. I truly don't think he'd be welcomed there.

President Carter has more goodness in one fingernail than TFG could ever hope to acquire in a lifetime. All TFG would do is try ruin the service. It's ultimately up to the family, I guess.

I know President Carter has had a long and productive life, yet it still breaks my heart. He is the first prez. I ever voted for and I've always been proud about that.

[Beastly Boy]

14. As far as I am concerned, it's a bit too early to make ANY plans for Carter's funeral

[dsc]

43. He made them quite a long time ago

that fact has been mentioned in both 2006, when Ford died and in 2018 when GHW Bush died. I don't know what they are, but the plans have existed for quite a while now.

[Beastly Boy]

45. I meant discussing plans for his funeral in public. That's just in bad taste.

I am sure that Mr. Carter, as well as his family, lawyers, etc, have made plans. But that's none of our business.

[liberal_mama]

46. I agree. It's really bad taste to talk about his funeral while he is still alive

It's ghoulish.

[Texasgal]

16. He's a former President!

He will likely be invited AND attend. People are just voicing their objections. Is that a problem?

[RockRaven]

17. I'll grant the worrywarts this: TFG *does* have a history of showing up places uninvited/unwanted

HOWEVER, I don't see any chance he does so with a Carter funeral -- his ego wouldn't let him risk the humiliation of being turned away under TONS of media coverage. Even if he were to be invited, I don't see him going.

[MiniMe]

19. I don't believe he was invited to GWB's funeral

[diva77]

21. US Presidential Funeral Traditions

Interesting info re: Presidential funerals.

https://www.funeralhelpcenter.com/us-presidential-funeral-traditions/

Frankly, I'm too sad to think about it

[BlackSkimmer]

23. People love a chance to A) talk about tfg.

And B) fret about something to do with tfg.

I remember when certain posters had him dead and buried when he was first diagnosed with skin cancer. There were numerous tribute threads.

[treestar]

38. and when he got Covid-19

there was a lot about his death therefrom!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. People can't let him go.

[BannonsLiver]

25. Will you be sending out a list of approved topics?

[brooklynite]

26. "Jimmy Carter suggests Trump is an illegitimate president"

Former President Jimmy Carter suggested Friday that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would show that Donald Trump didn’t win the presidency.

“There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” Carter said at the Carter Center’s retreat in Leesburg, Virginia.

Asked if he believes Trump is an illegitimate president, Carter paused for a moment.

“Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract,” Carter said to audience laughter.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/jimmy-carter-trump-russia-interference/index.html

Trump escalates spat with ‘forgotten president’ Jimmy Carter

OSAKA, Japan — Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Jimmy Carter as the “forgotten president,” one day after Carter questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s election, saying the president likely won because of Russian interference.

“He’s a nice man. He was a terrible president,” Trump said at a news conference after wrapping the G-20 summit in Japan. “He’s been trashed within his own party. He’s been trashed.”

Carter, who served between 1977 and 1981, made the allegation Friday while speaking in Leesburg, Va., saying a full investigation of Russian election interference would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/29/trump-jimmy-carter-russia-1390416

Just the sort of person you'd invite to your funeral?

[treestar]

39. 'a nice man"

rare tribute from TFG

[W_HAMILTON]

42. Why are you responding to your own post?

[pinkstarburst]

27. Whether or not you like 45

he is a former president. This merits an invitation to things like the state funerals of former presidents. He may or may not attend. But I am sure he will be invited just like all the other past presidents.

[onenote]

28. If he's not invited, or is dis-invited, it would be a break with recent tradition.

All living former presidents attended the funerals of LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush I. I assume that was the case for JFK and probably for Eisenhower and even Hoover. Not sure when a former president wasn't in attendance at the funeral of a fellow former president and what the reason was for such absence if and when it occurred.

[brooklynite]

32. And Trump is a stickler for tradition...

[debm55]

34. brooklynite, if Trump is a stckler for tradition, why didn't he attend the swearing in of Biden as

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President?

[brooklynite]

35. And that's my point.

I doubt that the Carters feel the need top invite Trump simply because that's the "tradition", especially given his own track record.

[onenote]

37. And my point is that the Carters respect tradition

And are likely to invite him if for no other reason than to highlight the difference between them and Trump

[treestar]

40. but unless there was good reason

they went to the inaugurations, too. TFG is a sore loser and has to be the corpse at every funeral no doubt.

[roamer65]

31. Dump is the anti-Carter.

President Carter is such a good and kind person.

Dump is the absolute antithesis to all of what President Carter has stood for.

[inthewind21]

36. I'm

baffled why people are discussing the funeral of man still living.

[Takket]

41. He's in hospice. Hence the discussion.

[Raine]

44. I can't stand to think of him being dead 💔😪 too painful. nt