On Sunday, former United States President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100, but one prominent sports radio personality was not exactly kind when he was talking about Carter’s legacy.
While he was on the air, media personality Mike Francesa learned that Jimmy Carter had passed away, and he gave his life reaction.
“I just see the breaking news that former President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of, amazingly, 100,” Francesa said according to Mediaite. “I don’t know if he’s the first president to ever make 100. I would think he probably is, but I don’t know that. Don’t swear me to that because I don’t know if that’s true; but I think it is.”
But even though Carter passed away, that didn’t stop Francesa from blasting Carter, calling him “not a great president.”
“Carter — history hasn’t been great to Jimmy Carter. He was not a great president,” Francesa said.
“I’m not trying to disparage him in any way,” Francesa continued. “Remember, you were coming off Watergate. The United States, the country felt that Washington was dirty, corrupt. They had had enough of career politicians and [Richard Nixon] was the ultimate career politician. I mean, he had been in Congress, he had been a two-time vice president, he ran for president ’60, he ran for governor in ’62, he lost in ’60, lost in ’62. He came back and won the presidency; he came back and won it again; and then came Watergate.”
It’s obviously a pretty crass way to talk about the death of a former president.
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