Ben Shapiro says Jimmy Carter “was a vindictive, not particularly nice human being”
Shapiro: “He also happened to be the world's worst ex-president, a horrifyingly bad ex-president who did quite evil things with his ex-presidency”
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From the January 6, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Over the course of the break, the New Year's break, Jimmy Carter passed away at the ripe old age of 100. And whenever anyone prominent dies, there's an attempt to sort of create a halo effect around that person and around that person's legacy. Jimmy Carter was a person with a family, obviously. And whenever an American with family dies, that's something that's sad. However, we ought not whitewash Jimmy Carter's legacy. He's the worst president in modern American history. The only possible exception at this point would, in fact, be Joe Biden. He also happened to be the world's worst ex-president, a horrifyingly bad ex-president who did quite evil things with his ex-presidency. He built houses with Habitat for Humanity. That's great. That's really nice. Also, he spent literally all of his time hobnobbing with dictators, trying to cut deals that defied the American government, including Democratic governments like the the government that was led by Bill Clinton, and also supporting literal terrorist groups. This is a thing that Jimmy Carter -- he was a vindictive, not particularly nice human being, Jimmy Carter. And his later life proved it over and over and over again. And trying to turn that into a sort of revisionist history legacy where he was a perfectly nice president that everybody sort of loved and he was given a bad break and he was he was sort of given short shrift, that's not true. The American people kicked him out on his ass because he was a terrible president, and he became an awful, awful, awful ex-president as well. And it is worth noting that before the history gets rewritten.