Posted on 08/21/2024 8:48:04 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Former President Trump offered rare praise of his White House predecessor Tuesday, calling former President Obama a “nice gentleman” before his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
CNN’s Kristen Holmes asked Trump for a “prebuttal” of Obama’s remarks to Democrats Tuesday before he was set to take the stage at his own rally in Michigan. Instead of hammering home his typical attacks of Obama, Trump told CNN that he liked and respected the 44th president, while also criticizing his trade policies.
“I like him. I think he’s a nice gentleman, but he was very, very weak on trade,” he said. “If you take a look at what happened to our country, trade-wise, it was a disaster.
“Take a look at Japan. Take a look at China,” Trump continued. “Take a look at what happened with some of these countries, what they did.”
The GOP nominee added, “But I happen to like him. I respect him, and I respect his wife.”
The former president’s comments showed a stark contrast to his usual insults thrown at Obama. Trump was one of the stronger promoters of the “birther” conspiracy theory that falsely claimed Obama was not born in the United States.
His comments also came before former first lady Michelle Obama delivered her remarks in Chicago. She ripped into the GOP presidential hopeful throughout her speech, and her loudest applause came from referencing Trump’s recent “Black jobs” comment.
“By the way — who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs?’” the former first lady said as the crowd burst into applause.
Former President Obama then took the stage, where he also tore into the former president. He said Trump “hasn’t stopped whining about his problems” and is “afraid of losing to Kamala,” noting he spreads conspiracy theories and has a “weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
“The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day,” he said. “Now, from a neighbor, that’s exhausting. From a president, that’s just dangerous.”
The Obamas endorsed Vice President Harris late last month, after President Biden announced he would step aside from the race. Harris is currently leading Trump by 3 points — 49.4 percent to 46.4 percent — in The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national polling index.
Hahah....Trump is pure policy so what do they do...they talk about the Birther issue. LOVING the mix up.
We already know the Obama’s have no class.
He’s a trashtalking punk. If he wasn’t a punk politician, he’d be a gang leader or even a drug cartel leader.
We already know the Obama’s have no class.
Like school on Saturday.
And Kamala is a “ beautiful woman”
No he’s not. He’s disgusting.
Trump sees trade issues clearly but is kind of murky when it comes to No-Drama Obama’s adherence and pressure to increase the unconstitutional acts and agencies of the feds to the great destruction of the American People’s prosperity and dreams.
Exactly. When I heard Trump say that I also thought of Obama as Gus Fring!
AND the stupid authoress Lauren Sforza got the birther issue completely wrong.
The claim was Obama was not an NBC, not that he wasn’t born in the USA.
A small fringe of people thought Obama wasn’t born in the USA, but most argued on the grounds he wasn’t an NBC. There was very strong evidence he was not and is not an NBC.
Yeah I get a similar “refined criminal” vibe from both Gus Fring and Obama.
Trump certainly knows how to butter up people, holdover from his empire building days.
As for Obama, all he ever accomplished was being a community organizer, whatever that is, which is probably nothing, and tricking people into voting for him. I saw a still shot of him giving his speech, full of passion, etc., but with his eyes at the same time on the teleprompter.
Oh, these democrat hucksters can rise to the heights of righteous indignation.
I like how he pivoted to policy. He’s been really on-point in regard to focusing on key policies the past week and half or so. I hope he keeps it up during the debate; ABC will try to keep everything focused on things that help Kamala, so Trump needs to keep pivoting to his key policies and points like this.
Smart.
THAT'S why they can't afford to let him back in; he'll slaughter the ones that hurt us.
“If he wasn’t a punk politician, he’d be a gang leader or even a drug cartel leader”
He’s not tough enough to be either of those......did you see that homo throw a baseball?.....my wife has a better arm than that.
There is NOTHING NICE about Obama!!
This is all political BS. Means nothing about anything. Trump knows Obama is an a-hole. This is just political posturing and means nothing.
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