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Many Americans have grown sick and tired of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton meddling
in politics, even after their time has come to an end. After what Obummer just decided
to say about President Donald Trump however, the already existing anger towards Obama has
blown into a full rage.
President Trump is no stranger to criticism, and it’s not hard to see why. When we’ve
had managerial, deceitful, and corrupt politicians bought out by big businesses for the past
several decades, when a man who can’t be bought, bribed, or bargained with comes into
play, the only thing left to do is to slander him.
Disgraced former-President Obama however, took this slander to a whole new level. He
compared President Trump, who’s trying to get our economy back on track, make America
a superpower in the world, and prioritize our own citizens over foreigners, to, you
guessed it, Adolph Hitler.
Daily Mail reports:
Barack Obama appeared to compare Donald Trump‘s presidency to Hitler’s rise to power during
a speech in Chicago on Tuesday. The former president was speaking at an event
thrown by the Economic Club of Chicago at a Hilton hotel when he made the remarks.
Without mentioning the current president, Obama told the gathered audience of 1,800:
‘We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly.
‘That’s what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the
Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph
Hitler rose to dominate. ‘Sixty million people died. So you’ve
got to pay attention.’ The comments were part of a wider warning
to the audience not to grow ‘complacent’ and take democracy for granted.
He also spoke of a ‘nativist mistrust’ which has ‘swept the world’, in the words
of a Chicago Business reporter who attended the event.
Although not explicitly directed at Trump, his comments have been widely interpreted
as an attack on the president and his America First agenda.
Elsewhere in the Q&A session, Obama spoke of the importance of the US’s role in international
development. ‘Things don’t happen internationally if
we don’t put our shoulder to the wheel. ‘No other country has the experience and
bandwidth and ideals…If the U.S. doesn’t do it, it’s not going to happen,’ he said.
In another apparent jibe at the media-wary president, Obama said that during his time
in office, he ‘understood the principle that the free press was vital.’
Trump’s fans reacted angrily to comments. Among them was game show talk host Chuck Woolery
who called the remarks ‘despicable’. Others said they were ‘un-American’ and
‘disgusting’. His remarks came a day before Trump declared
Jerusalem the capital of Israel, sparking fury among Muslims around the world and feeding
concern for escalated tensions in the Middle East.
On Thursday, after news of Obama’s remarks spread, Trump fans said the move proved he
was a friend to Jews and separated him from the Nazi leader.
They did not acknowledge the anger the decision fueled among billions of Muslims around the
world much less in Palestine where residents burned the American flag in response to the
announcement. Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 after
rising through the democratic ranks of the Reichstag.
Two months later, the first concentration camp was opened.