Joe Biden Send a Strong Warning To Donald Trump After The Death Of Jimmy Carter (Video)
President Joe Biden on Sunday delivered remarks on the passing of 100-year-old Jimmy Carter before taking questions from gathered reporters, one of whom asked him what president-elect Donald Trump should learn from the late former president’s legacy.
Biden spoke to reporters from his vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands for just over nine minutes, partly reading aloud from his official statement and describing his friendship with President Carter and his late wife Rosalynn Carter. Biden talked about Carter’s political and humanitarian legacies, as he saw them, and then opened up the room to questions from the press.
At one point, Biden zeroed in on one reporter from among several who were speaking simultaneously to answer what he thinks Trump should “take” from former president Carter: “decency.”
“Is there anything President Trump could take from President Carter?” the reporter managed to ask.
“Decency,” Biden replied before repeating it two more times. “Decency. Decency.”
“Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking?” Biden asked rhetorically, clearly meaning it to be a characterization of Trump. “Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk? I can’t. I can’t.”
Trump issued two statements on Sunday on the passing of Carter, with whom he has shared numerous public disagreements in the past. In them, he described Carter as more consequential than most presidents, and “a truly good man” for whom he had the “highest respect.”
REPORTER: Is there anything President Trump could take from President Carter?
BIDEN: Decency. Decency. Decency. Everybody deserves a shot. Everybody. 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? I can’t. I can’t. You know, I think the end of the deal here is that one of the reasons why we’re looked to by the rest of the world is the bulk of our, our nation, we’ve laid out what our values are. We said we believe. It’s not just in the declara– We hold these truths to be self-evident. But it, there’s a feeling. The rest of the world looks to us. Looks to us. And he was worth looking to. Thank you very much.
As Biden concluded his remarks, Biden said that other countries look to the United States when it comes to values is that we’ve laid them out, and “said what we believe.”
“The rest of the world looks to us,” Biden said. “And he was worth looking to.”
