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→Post Presidency and legacy
Carter left office disappointed and unhappy. He became the first elected President since [[Herbert Hoover]] to lose a bid for a second term.
Carter left office disappointed and unhappy. He became the first elected President since [[Herbert Hoover]] to lose a bid for a second term.
==Post Presidency and legacy==
==Post Presidency==
{{See also|Israel apartheid slur}}
{{See also|Israel apartheid slur}}
[[Image:Palestine peace not apartheid.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cover of Jimmy Carter's controversial and defamatory book, ''Peace Not Apartheid''.]]
[[Image:Palestine peace not apartheid.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cover of Jimmy Carter's controversial and defamatory book, ''Peace Not Apartheid''.]]
Jimmy Carter announced in 2019 that he supports the [[Trump Russia hoax]], a completely false and baseless [[conspiracy theory]] that claims that [[Republican]] US President [[Donald Trump]]'s victory against [[Hillary Clinton]] was brought about by Russian interference.<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/jimmy-carter-trump-russia-interference/index.html Jimmy Carter suggests Trump is an illegitimate president]</ref>
Jimmy Carter announced in 2019 that he supports the [[Trump Russia hoax]], a completely false and baseless [[conspiracy theory]] that claims that [[Republican]] US President [[Donald Trump]]'s victory against [[Hillary Clinton]] was brought about by Russian interference.<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/jimmy-carter-trump-russia-interference/index.html Jimmy Carter suggests Trump is an illegitimate president]</ref>
==Death and legacy==
Carter died on December 29, 2024 at the age of 100 having lived long enough to see his legacy moved from number 1 to number 2 of the worst modern [[American]] [[president]]s, replaced by [[Joseph R. Biden]].<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4430328-bidens-third-year-job-approval-worst-since-carter-gallup/</ref><ref>https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/12/lucas-joe-biden-is-so-bad-he-makes-jimmy-carter-look-good/</ref>
Carter died on December 29, 2024 at the age of 100 having lived long enough to see his legacy moved from number 1 to number 2 of the worst modern [[American]] [[president]]s, replaced by [[Joseph R. Biden]].<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4430328-bidens-third-year-job-approval-worst-since-carter-gallup/</ref><ref>https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/12/lucas-joe-biden-is-so-bad-he-makes-jimmy-carter-look-good/</ref>
In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:
{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition [[innocent]], outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}
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