Politico: Obama delivers full-throated rebuke of Trump's presidency
In a rare public address, Obama says Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out.
URBANA, Ill. — The night before the 2016 election, Barack Obama said Donald Trump was “uniquely unqualified” on the economy, “temperamentally unfit” on foreign policy, couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes and had “utter contempt for the values that make this nation great.”
Friday, the former president took the stage here in a University of Illinois auditorium and said it had been all that and worse.
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WNU Editor: What struck me about his speech were the following. He believes he is the one who deserves to be credited for the booming economy. It clearly irks him that no one is giving him that recognition. The two times that he mentioned Donald Trump .... he did not say President Donald Trump. He started strong .... but after 10 - 15 minutes he lost his audience by spending too much time defending his administration's history. My read at the beginning was that the audience wanted to be fired up .... but after one hour these people were not fired up at all. As for the main stream media's reaction .... they loved the speech (see below).
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