Former American Democratic President Obama isn’t sitting on the sidelines for this one….
He’s out and about campaigning and attacking another President that has shown him NO Respect….
Donald Trump….
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday attacked President Trump’s administration in searing and mocking terms, saying it was defined by “incompetence the likes of which we have not seen in modern times.”
Appearing in Cleveland at his first campaign rally of the midterm elections, Mr. Obama delivered his most forceful attack on Mr. Trump in recent memory. He also criticized a campaign ad from the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, Vivek Ramaswamy, saying it exemplified a coarsening of American politics.
Mr. Obama, who has been selective about publicly criticizing Mr. Trump, condemned his Republican successor’s stewardship of the country in terms that were personal and pointed. He said Mr. Trump’s second term had amounted to “two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption,” argued that top administration officials were “not serious people” and said Mr. Trump had led the country into an economically painful war in Iran “that nobody asked for.”
“As a former president, I can tell you sometimes factors beyond a president’s control end up foiling the best-laid plans,” Mr. Obama said. But, he added: “That is not the case here. In this case, this administration’s actions are directly responsible for rising costs.”
Mr. Obama, describing Mr. Trump as “you know who” or “this guy in the White House,” said America had never had a president “excel so wildly at just straight-up grifting.” And he cast Mr. Trump as disconnected from Americans’ needs, engrossed instead by White House renovation projects.
“He should be on HGTV,” Mr. Obama said, ridiculing Mr. Trump’s focus on applying gold trimmings to the White House. “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Just gold everywhere.”….
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Voting early on Saturday, Mr. Trump told reporters that Mr. Obama had been a “lousy president” and cast the former president’s criticisms as a signal of Republicans’ strength….
image…FILE – Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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