There will be a flyover of jets in his hometown on Tuesday, and 100 people will have naturalisation ceremonies in his honour.

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • @psycho_driver
    13•6 hours ago

    Phrasing. He means, he wants to live long enough to be able to vote for Kamala and then he can die. Yes, he really did say that.