Posted on 05/04/2016 7:30:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama on Wednesday took a jab at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumpover his harsh rhetoric about immigrants.
Speaking at an event honoring Asian-American and Pacific Islander students and leaders, Obama called on them to vote to push back against a “rising tide of bigotry” against immigrants.
“If you doubt what’s at stake, you obviously haven’t been reading the papers,” Obama said at the Asian Pacific American Institute of Congressional Studies gala in Washington.
The president said if Asian-Americans exercise their political power, they can help the country “move beyond today’s anti-immigrant sentiment” just like past generations did.
“We’ve got to push back against anti-immigrant sentiment in all of its forms,” he said. “Especially by those who are trying to stoke it just to seek political gain and just to try to get headlines.”
The president’s line about headline seekers, a clear shot at Trump, drew a raucous ovation from the crowd gathered at the Washington Hilton.
Obama’s comments came one day after Trump won the Indiana primary, becoming the presumptive GOP nominee.
His victory chased his two remaining rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, out of the race.
The president has become an outspoken critic of Trump, repeatedly bashing his proposals on immigration. Obama is expected to wield an even larger megaphone against Trump when he begins campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Obama told the Asian-American leaders they have the power to push Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform if they vote in greater numbers, not only in presidential elections, but also in midterms and state and local races.
Trump won over Republican primary voters in part because of his blunt talk about cracking down on illegal immigration. He’s pledged to build a wall along the U.S.’ southern border and have Mexico pay for it. He’s referred to undocumented Latino immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals.”
He also had an awkward moment last October when he asked an American-born student of Korean heritage if he was “from South Korea."
Sprains knuckles, wrist.
What, bath house barky thinks he’s ‘important’ now?
He knows that quickly Trump will have America on a rocketsled of success and respect. And that he will be revealed to be the small petty man he is.
no one listens to this POS anymore and no, I wouldn’t pee on him if he was on fire
“...his harsh rhetoric about immigrants.”
It’s ILLEGAL immigrants, you leftist turds.
And for the record, the average American is much harsher than Trump, in their thoughts and statements about ILLEGALS.
How about this Baraq:
A twenty year moratorium on ALL immigration. If you loved this nation you’d be all for it.
But you are a stinking “citizen of the word”
...... Obama has spent his entire tenure in office deliberately fabricating and creating this and other so called crisis’ for maximum effect for when he leaves office and to give the Democrat Presidential nominee emotional talking points to help sway the masses.
FU bigot Obama
What’s he done about immigration except to make it worse?
Amen to that!
“The trouble with America is, it has too many Americans.” Right Kenyan Klown?
Queen Putt, the Marxist, Mooslim, Kenyan, Steaming Pant Load Sissy Boy Goat humping, Allah FUBAR screaming Sand Uyghur
Speaking at an event honoring Asian-American and Pacific Islander ....
I would bet they were all here legally. Is that too much to ask of the others? Comply with our laws or stay out.
Yes! Let it be so.
Obama is an immigrant. - Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson
allowing people into a country in an orderly way or taking time to pause the system and review it is not bigotry, it’s common sense and proper, since we are a country.
Obama just doesn’t want to be seen as having done the wrong he has, and still is.
And the average Americans have flocked to the side of Trump because he is the only one of the 15 or so people running for the Republican nomination who has consistently, and unwaveringly voiced their dissatisfaction with the equivocations of the GOPe dopes on the subject.
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