Obama delivers a new veiled slap at Trump as he warns – in Canada – that America could descend into ‘extreme nationalism and xenophobia and the politics of us-versus-them’
Former U.S. president Barack Obama delivered a extended, vicious coded critique of his successor Donald Trump without naming him
He bashed the rise of ‘extreme nationalism and xenophobia and the politics of “us-versus-them”,’ a clear slap at Trump in the language of American liberals
Obama seemed to characterize Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy as an abandonment of international institutions
In a veiled attack on Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy, Obama he warned against the belief that ‘what’s good for me and my immediate people is all that matters, everybody else is on their own’
By David Martosko, US Political Editor
DailyMail.com6 June 2017
Former U.S. president Barack Obama delivered an extended, vicious coded critique of his successor Donald Trump on Tuesday in Canada, speaking to an audience of 6,000 fans at an event hosted by the Montreal Board of Trade.
He bashed the rise of ‘extreme nationalism and xenophobia and the politics of “us-versus-them”,’ a clear slap at Trump in the preferred language of American liberals.
‘In times of disruption we may go backward instead of forward,’ he warned. ‘We’re going to have to replace fear with hope.’
Obama drew laughter with a thinly veiled kick at the Trump administration’s famous embrace of ‘alternative facts,’ saying that America in the less than 20 weeks since he left office has suddenly devolved into a place ‘where we don’t just have disagreements based on our opinions, but now people are just disagreeing on facts.’
‘And we’re in an environment where we are only accepting information that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the facts that we receive. And evidence and reason and logic.
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