(CNN) - Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush made headlines last week for their implicit criticism of President Donald Trump. But Trump may have found an unlikely ally in former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.
In a recent New York Times interview, Carter defended Trump, and offered to help on a key foreign policy issue. The 93-year-old said he'd be willing to visit North Korea on Trump's behalf amid ongoing nuclear tensions. The White House said on Monday that it's open to discussing a role for the former president on North Korea.
Carter helped defuse the first North Korean nuclear crisis, paving the way for a 1994 deal in which Pyongyang pledged to give up its nuclear weapons in return for aid.
And while he said he thinks Trump is deepening racial divisions, but maybe not deliberately, Carter appeared to at least partially agree on the national anthem, saying NFL players should stand for the anthem.
He added that he didn’t think that there was any evidence that Russian meddling changed enough votes, or any votes, in the 2016 election. His wife Rosalynn disagreed.
The former Georgia governor also said that the media has been harder on Trump than on any other president he can recall.
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