After Obama Mocked Trump as Unqualified, Trump Fights Back
Donald Trump attacked President Barack Obama Wednesday afternoon, angry the Commander-in-Chief is “allowed” to campaign for Hillary Clinton. The soon-to-be outgoing Democrat Tuesday mocked Trump, saying tweeting and insulting does not make a candidate qualified to lead the nation. It’s unclear who would be authorized to stop the President for supporting the candidate of his choice.
“Why the hell is Obama allowed to campaign for Hillary Clinton?” Trump demanded to know, as he spoke to voters in Ocala, Florida. “He’s always campaigning,” Trump insisted falsely. In fact, the President did campaign for Clinton Tuesday, and before that, the last time he campaigned for her was September 13 according to a website that tracks all Clinton campaign events.
On Tuesday, Obama mocked Trump, telling a cheering and laughing crowd of supporters in Greensboro, North Carolina, “Tweeting doesn’t qualify you” to be president.”
“Sound bites don’t qualify you. Insults certainly don’t qualify you,” he added.
On Wednesday, Trump insisted Pres. Obama should spend his remaining time in office “working, and fixing some of these horrible trade deals, and bringing jobs back to our country, not campaigning for a crooked person.”
Trump, as usual, is uninformed, or lying, or both.
According to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, under President Obama’s leadership:
- The economy has added nearly 10.7 million jobs.
- Median household income has gone up $1,140, or 2 percent.
- The buying power of the average worker’s weekly paycheck is up 4.2 percent.
- Median sales prices of existing single-family homes are up 23 percent.
- The unemployment rate has dropped well below the historical norm; job openings are at a 15-year high.
- Corporate profits and stock prices have both soared to record highs.
- The number of people lacking health insurance has gone down by 16.5 million.
- The murder rate is down nearly 5 percent, despite an increase in 2015.
- The number of unauthorized immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S. is down, according to demographers.
- Wind and solar power have quadrupled; coal production has dropped 36 percent; carbon emissions have gone down 12 percent.
PolitiFact adds that of the “more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns,” he has kept 45%, compromised on 25%, and broken 22%. There are 6% still in the works, and 1% are stalled.
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