TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House announced Monday [4-15-19] that President Donald Trump spoke by phone over the weekend with former President Jimmy Carter after Carter wrote to the president about his trade negotiations with China. In a statement, the White House praised Carter’s ‘beautiful letter’ and said the pair ‘had a very good telephone conversation about President Trump’s stance on trade with China and numerous other topics’…Carter, who last month became the oldest living president, disclosed his talk with Trump during one of the biweekly Sunday school classes he teaches in his hometown of Plains, Ga., according to Atlanta radio station WABE. Carter oversaw the normalization of U.S.-China relations during his one term as president and said during an event in January commemorating the 40th anniversary of that milestone that he was planning to draft a letter advising Trump to convene a small group of informal ‘distinguished’ advisers on China.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump had a weekend phone call with Jimmy Carter,” Politico, April 15, 2019 2:38 pm