it would only feed into the narrative that trump is different and represents “real change” while ex-presidents are “establishment”

I'd love to see each of them, in turn, MOCK trump similar to the way Obama did in 2011

He has been talking about running for years and years. The man hated Obama before that too...first black POTUS... Trump being a racist was all it took to hate Obama and want to undo everything he did.

Bill Clinton understandably doesn't because all that would do is cause Trump to focus on Hillary even more than he does.

The only thing I've read that Carter has said was supportive of Trump, actually.

though nothing lately that could be construed as criticism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/thanks-jimmy-carter-for-stating-what-should-be-obvious-trumps-campaign-is-racist/

Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is Racist

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During a presidential cycle in which the mainstream media and political class has used frustratingly neutral language to describe the deep-seated prejudice fueling Donald Trump’s presidential bid, Jimmy Carter—a 91-year-old, white Baptist deacon from the reddest part of the South—has decided to do the exact opposite.

Carter, who is still receiving treatment for his nearly year-old cancer diagnosis, unapologetically told The New York Times Monday that Trump’s campaign has “tapped a waiting reservoir of racism” contrary to “basic human rights.” In typical Carter style, he not only named the problem, but has thrown himself into the fray of trying to solve it, calling for a summit of his New Baptist Covenant project to unite members of that denomination into a transracial effort to fight hatred.

The fact that his frank words and call to action have sparked dozens of headlines and set the blogosphere alight for days tells us a lot about just how far down the rabbit hole America has gone on race recently. President Obama’s term was characterized initially as “post racial.” Yet there’s something about the present that’s clearly all too familiar to Carter, who spent half of his life uncomfortably at the very top of America’s racial caste system in the segregated South, but who devoted the second half of it to tearing that system down.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/356639-carter-media-has-been-harder-on-trump-than-other-presidents


https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-10-23/donald-trump-finds-unlikely-ally-in-jimmy-carter


https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-10-23/donald-trump-finds-unlikely-ally-in-jimmy-carter

This is not to criticize Carter. He's not wearing a MAGA cap or anything. But since you are disagreeing with my statement that Bush & Obama have criticized Trump (albeit not directly using his name), and just mentioning that Carter has not...I post these as further impressions that no, Carter has not come forward specially to criticize or warn about Trump and his actions, as Obama and Bush have. Not that any of them have to. I'm not even sure how much influence any of them have. Carter has made some statements about Trump when asked, but most of them lean positive, trying to bolster the President. It is likely that Carter thinks a President should be bolstered because it's good for the country. None of them HAVE to do anything.

aren't going to care what "reasonable" people have to say.

only thing that might change their minds is their own economic situation but even then many have said they aren't expecting much and will be happy as long as he goes after minorites.

They owe it to themselves. They owe it to their country.