‘It’s Not Cool to Not Know What You’re Talking About,’ President Obama Says of the Presumptive GOP Nominee
President Barack Obama Sunday afternoon deliciously and hysterically mocked Donald Trump‘s claims of telling it like it is and not being politically correct.
“If you were listening to today’s political debate,” the Democratic President says to the 17,000 or so graduates as he delivers the commencement address at Rutgers University, “you might wonder where this strain of anti-intellectualism came from,” he said to laughter, applause, and cheers.
“Let me be as clear as I can be: In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,†Obama continued, to more cheers and applause. “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about,” he mocked.
“That’s not ‘keeping it real’ or ‘telling it like it is.’ That’s not ‘challenging political correctness.’ That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about. And yet we’ve become confused about this,” he concluded in the voice he uses when he’s being sarcastic.
The President went on to say the “world is more interconnected than ever before and it’s becoming more connected every day. Building walls won’t change that.”
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