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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. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
OBAMA: And if he got the most votes, then it would be my expectation of Hillary Clinton to offer a gracious concession speech and pledge to work with him in order to make sure that the American people benefit from an effective government. And it would be my job to welcome Mr. Trump, regardless of what he's said about me or my differences with him on my opinions, and escort him over to the Capitol, in which there would be a peaceful transfer of power. That's what Americans do. That's why America is already great. One way of weakening America, making it less great, is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan, and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries.
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.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
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.
What, now talking about "us-versus-them" is a sign of being against "us-versus-them", which is bad (because it is talking-like-liberals)?
That does not make any sense. This is so inverted and in-itself turned-in-and-out kind of unlogic that it hurts. Doesn't it? If not, explain to me why speaking against "us-versus-them" is a bad thing.
Is "us-versus-them" really a good thing? Is this pickering and nutcasing of "divide et impera" really what you want? Because it directs all the needed energies to rebuilt a country against its people. Winning nothing, losing everything, because the energy is LOST.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
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.
What, now talking about "us-versus-them" is a sign of being against "us-versus-them", which is bad (because it is talking-like-liberals)?
That does not make any sense. This is so inverted and in-itself turned-in-and-out kind of unlogic that it hurts. Doesn't it? If not, explain to me why speaking against "us-versus-them" is a bad thing.
Is "us-versus-them" really a good thing? Is this pickering and nutcasing of "divide et impera" really what you want? Because it directs all the needed energies to rebuilt a country against its people. Winning nothing, losing everything, because the energy is LOST.