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**tomcat** · 10-05-2020, 07:52 AM

Obama Blasts Trump’s Virus Response as ‘Chaotic Disaster’

By Jennifer A Dlouhy
May 10, 2020, 2:37 AM GMT+7
Bloomberg/asia

Former president exhorts staff to rally behind Joe Biden
Handling of pandemic to figure heavily into November election

Former President Barack Obama Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering attack on Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it “an absolute chaotic disaster” as well as “anemic.”

Obama’s remarks, first reported by Yahoo News, came in a leaked call as the former president exhorted members of his administration to rally behind presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The comments were perhaps the most scathing criticism Obama has yet delivered of his successor in the White House.

Critics have said the U.S. government wasted precious time in February by failing to ramp up testing and stockpile supplies as the coronavirus spread in Europe. The U.S. now leads the world in confirmed Covid-19 infections, with nearly 1.3 million as of Saturday. More than 78,000 have died in the U.S. from the virus.

However, Trump has defended his handling of the pandemic, repeatedly highlighting his Jan. 31 decision to impose travel restrictions barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering the U.S. after recent visits to China.
“President Trump’s coronavirus response has been unprecedented and saved American lives,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement on Saturday.

“While Democrats were pursuing a sham witch hunt against President Trump, President Trump was shutting down travel from China. While Democrats encouraged mass gatherings, President Trump was deploying PPE, ventilators, and testing across the country.”
Obama, in Friday’s remarks, cast the U.S. response to the virus as an outgrowth of tribalism as he sought to emphasize the urgency of the November election.

“What we’re going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party. What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided and seeing others as an enemy -- that has become a stronger impulse in American life” as well as internationally, Obama said.

“And it’s part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty,” he said.
While coronavirus “would have been bad even with the best of governments,” Obama said, “it has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset -- of ‘what’s in it for me’ and ‘to heck with everybody else’ -- when that mindset is operationalized in our government.”
Obama said that’s why he will be “spending as much time as necessary” and campaigning as hard as he can for Biden.

Although Obama endorsed Biden in April and promised to hit the campaign trail in support, he’s generally shied from delivering sharp attacks against Trump. However, that tone may change as Obama becomes a more visible cheerleader and surrogate for Biden.

**baldrick** · 10-05-2020, 09:51 AM

drumpf is chucking his toys out of the pram as more mail in voting is being allowed

**tomcat** · 10-05-2020, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

drumpf is chucking his toys out of the pram as more mail in voting is being allowed

...that pram needs bars...

**AntRobertson** · 10-05-2020, 11:04 AM

The right / GOP will kick back on this decrying it as a breaking of the unwritten rule of former presidents not criticizing the incumbent.

That sort of hypocrisy is tailor-made for them.

**harrybarracuda** · 10-05-2020, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

The right / GOP will kick back on this decrying it as a breaking of the unwritten rule of former presidents not criticizing the incumbent.

That sort of hypocrisy is tailor-made for them.

He doesn't mention the President , or even the Executive Branch.

He just says "government".

So whoever responds...

**tomcat** · 10-05-2020, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He doesn't mention the President , or even the Executive Branch.

...maybe the alt-right will think he means the deep state...

**panama hat** · 10-05-2020, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

That sort of hypocrisy is tailor-made for them.

Oh yes . . . they'll milk it

**Cujo** · 10-05-2020, 03:57 PM

I wish people would Call Trump on his BS more forcefully. I.E. that nurse he contradicted in the oval office the other day. The cameras were on and a good tongue lashing would be played over and over all over the world.
She shouldn't have caved to him the coward, she should have said, "No, PPE IS in short supply everywhere and if not why isn't it being directed to us who need it? like I said I've been wearing the same mask for two weeks putting myself and people I interact with in danger, what are you doing about it...SIR!".
People are too easy on him.

**tomcat** · 10-05-2020, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Cujo

I wish people would Call Trump on his BS more forcefully. I.E. that nurse he contradicted in the oval office the other day. The cameras were on and a good tongue lashing would be played over and over all over the world.

...I suspect that anyone who appears with him on camera has been carefully vetted to avoid such embarrassment...

**Dragonfly** · 10-05-2020, 04:52 PM

Obama, the great social manipulator, who did fuck all to fix things, is lecturing Trump about his response to the first greatest disaster of the 21st century?

holly fuck, Obama couldn't have universal healthcare for all Americans, and fucked up badly that fundamental right for all humans

he is frigging a hypocrite, and wouldn't have done better

**HuangLao** · 10-05-2020, 05:14 PM

Speculative matter of course, but one could easily guess that any competent President [regardless of political affiliation] would've handled this mess more efficiently - setting a unified, practical and positive tone.

**kmart** · 10-05-2020, 05:19 PM

Probably a response to Trump's accusations about Obama's handling of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) epidemic in 2011.

**harrybarracuda** · 10-05-2020, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by kmart

Probably a response to Trump's accusations about Obama's handling of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) epidemic in 2011.

Did bleach kill that as well?

**Cujo** · 10-05-2020, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Obama, the great social manipulator, who did fuck all to fix things, is lecturing Trump about his response to the first greatest disaster of the 21st century?

holly fuck, Obama couldn't have universal healthcare for all Americans, and fucked up badly that fundamental right for all humans

he is frigging a hypocrite, and wouldn't have done better

Your mental capacity seems to be deteriorating.
It's the repubtards that oppose universal healthcare or are you unaware.

**Cujo** · 10-05-2020, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by kmart

Probably a response to Trump's accusations about Obama's handling of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) epidemic in 2011.

At the beginning of this, tards like buttplug were slagging off Obamas handling of H1N1, 12,500 dead when Trump only had 15 cases of Coronavirus which would be down to 0 pretty soon and it would just go away.
They seem to think we forgot.

**Klondyke** · 10-05-2020, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Obama, the great social manipulator, who did fuck all to fix things,

But he did fix the rescue for the poor corporates, didn't he? (under the proper help of his VP...)

**AntRobertson** · 13-05-2020, 11:37 AM

Yep, it was inevitable: Covid 19 coronavirus: Republicans say Barack Obama 'should have kept his mouth shut' - NZ Herald

McConnell lecturing on decorum and class?!

Does he actively try to forget who he bends the knee to.

**panama hat** · 13-05-2020, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

McConnell lecturing on decorum and class?!

Trump and his assorted human faecal matter consistently trash Obama, but how dare the black boy respond . . . actually Obama has been quite the disappointment - yet again - by not being more vocal about the situation the US is in

**tomcat** · 13-05-2020, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

...actually Obama has been quite the disappointment - yet again - by not being more vocal about the situation the US is in

...tradition in recent times says that it's bad presidential form to criticize your predecessor. That, I think, is the reason that Obama has been reticent to speak out about the obvious ineptitude and graft most have already witnessed. It's worth noting that his negative comments were not made in an open forum, but were leaked from a telephone conversation. I imagine he'll be much more vocal as November nears, if only for the sake of the country. My hope is that tRump continues to rage so incoherently at Obama's every poke in the eye that even those in the Fox bubble might suspect an Adderol shortage at the WH...

**cyrille** · 13-05-2020, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

actually Obama has been quite the disappointment - yet again - by not being more vocal about the situation the US is in

I disagree.

It means that what he does say resonates.

If he had been more vocal then the Rep response would be very predictable 'sore loser / yesterday's man' jibes, and it would carry more weight.

Also, he need hardly say much to look so, so infinitely preferable to the incumbent.

**panama hat** · 13-05-2020, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

It's worth noting that his negative comments were not made in an open forum, but were leaked from a telephone conversation

That gives my criticism even more weight - he needs to step up. He was a statesman.

Originally Posted by tomcat

I imagine he'll be much more vocal as November nears,

It'll be too little too late to energise young voters and minorities and those who for some odd reason need to be pushed to vote . . . and the Bernie-ites

Originally Posted by cyrille

Also, he need hardly say much to look so, so infinitely preferable to the incumbent.

Bo, the Obama's dog, is infinitely preferable.

**Dragonfly** · 13-05-2020, 02:12 PM

Obama is an orator, that's all he does, speak and lecture, which he does very well (unlike Trump)

but that's it, he can't act on anything

while Trump is a doer, he leads and does things, yet he speaks shit

can't have it both ways,

**harrybarracuda** · 13-05-2020, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

...tradition in recent times says that it's bad presidential form to criticize your predecessor. That, I think, is the reason that Obama has been reticent to speak out about the obvious ineptitude and graft most have already witnessed. It's worth noting that his negative comments were not made in an open forum, but were leaked from a telephone conversation. I imagine he'll be much more vocal as November nears, if only for the sake of the country. My hope is that tRump continues to rage so incoherently at Obama's every poke in the eye that even those in the Fox bubble might suspect an Adderol shortage at the WH...

Does tradition allow you to repeatedly slag off your predecessor with lies (e.g. Obama didn't leave a vaccine for a virus that didn't exist) without the right to reply?

Baldy orange cunto made his own piss-stained bed, he can fucking lie in it.

**cyrille** · 13-05-2020, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Trump is a dodger

fixed

**Klondyke** · 13-05-2020, 02:44 PM

Not sure what's this all about. Is it about the ObamaGate?

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