TRUMP COMMENDS THEM AS ‘FINEST PUBLIC SERVANTS’

Austin: President Donald Trump has released a video message commending the five living ex- presidents appearing together at a hurricane relief concert in Texas, putting aside past criticism of his predecessors to call them “some of America’s finest public servants.”

Democrats Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and Republicans George H.W. And George W. Bush are appearing together for the first time since 2013 to raise money for parts of Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands devastated by hurricanes.

“This wonderful effort reminds us that we truly are one nation under God, all unified by our values and devotion to one another,” Trump said on Saturday. New York: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website on Sunday.

“I would go, yes,” Mr Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at his ranch house in Plains, Georgia whether it was time for another diplomatic mission and whether he would do so for President Trump.

Mr Carter, a Democrat who was President from 1977 to 1981, said he had spoken to mr Trump’s National Security Adviser Lt.-Gen. H.R. McMaster, who is a friend, but so far has gotten a negative response. “I told him that I was available if they ever need me, the Times quoted Carter as saying.