As the 39th president is eulogized at Washington National Cathedral, Biden tells mourners his long-ago predecessor “taught me ... the strength of character.”

All the wonderful accolades and remembrances of the life of President Jimmy Carter are certainly well deserved. He was a man of such decency and service to benefit of others. His legacy could not be more of a contrast to that of our president elect.

As he sat down to sign a fresh round of executive orders Trump joked with reporters, opining on everything from foreign policy to drones to the way he’s redecorated the Oval Office.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, was sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

(AP Photo/Nonthemba Kwela, File) FILE - President Jimmy Carter meets with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 27, 1980. (AP Photo ...

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era.

A January 10-11 survey of 1,000 registered voters found President Joe Biden with a 37% approval rating in the final week of his presidency, 12 points lower than when Emerson first polled his

A longtime enthusiast of political tradition, Biden could well embrace membership in the ex-presidents club. The former commanders in chief from time to time pose for pictures and pat one another on the back while milling around at historic events — and sit together at VIP funerals.

The spectacle in Washington this week was extraordinary — a deceased president and a revived president at opposite ends of the moral scale. Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Donald Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office. Carter’s passion for honesty was as ingrained as Trump’s addiction to lying.

In November 1976, while I was attending seminary in Evanston, Illinois, I cast my first vote for the President of the United States. I’m proud of that first vote and even prouder of the man who served our country for four years as Commander and Chief and then went on to serve the least and lowliest in the world for 40 more.

Trump’s administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.