From 'worst president' to 'highest respect': Trump softens opinion of Jimmy Carter in death

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump had only kind words to say about Jimmy Carter upon his death on Sunday, calling the former president “a truly good man” who will be missed. But Trump spoke of Carter in far less charitable terms when he was alive. For years, Trump, a Republican, has mocked the one-term, Democratic commander-in-chief as the nation’s worst president. Just two months ago, on Carter’s 100th birthday, Trump suggested the terminally ill centenarian was happy because Joe Biden had finally replaced him as the worst president ever. Carter...