President Donald Trump has never and likely will never take even the slightest level of scrutiny well. This Tuesday morning, following the first night of speeches from this year’s all-online Democratic National Convention (DNC), Trump wound himself up into a rage over the Obama administration — which, it’s worth noting, has been out of office for years, but he’s still obsessing over, similar to his anti-Hillary obsession. Laughably, Trump claimed on Tuesday that people “forget how divided our Country was under ObamaBiden” — as if he himself wasn’t the one leading some of the division during the Obama years too! Trump is the one who ran far and wide with the racist conspiracy theory that then-President Obama might not have been born in the United States.
Trump tweeted:
‘People forget how divided our Country was under ObamaBiden. The anger and hatred were unbelievable. They shouldn’t be lecturing to us. I’m here, as your President, because of them!’
People forget how divided our Country was under ObamaBiden. The anger and hatred were unbelievable. They shouldn’t be lecturing to us. I’m here, as your President, because of them!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020
Again — it’s Trump’s own side that was largely responsible for the divisiveness then, too! The so-called Tea Party Movement, for instance, grew during the early parts of Obama’s time in office, and it represented an angry, far-right ideology that sought divisiveness across the United States in the name of their political agenda. Congressional Republicans spent years blocking Obama from accomplishing policy goals to the point that, infamously, they even refused to even hold hearings for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. These are established facts — not conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday morning, Trump also criticized New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) for his response to the Coronavirus outbreak in his state. He accused the governor of killing 11,000 people in nursing homes after a recent Associated Press report noted that, if similar proportions were found in New York as the rest of the country, then the state likely suffered over 11,000 nursing home Coronavirus deaths among its overall total casualties. Cuomo has faced criticism for at one point having nursing homes accept Coronavirus patients. Crucially, Trump’s implication that Cuomo failed but he represents some kind of success is utterly ridiculous. Every New York death also occurred on the president’s own watch, too, and Trump repeatedly dragged his feet big time when it came to mobilizing the resources that states needed.
A horrible Governor. Crime is taking over NYC & State, everyone is leaving. He is after the NRA – They should move to Texas or elsewhere, and must get tough. Cuomo killed 11,000 people in nursing homes alone. Crooked & Incompetent! https://t.co/d4hZDAvdWo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to Trump below:
