Former President Barack Obama, whose wife Michelle famously said, “When they go low, we go high,” decided he had no interest in dignity, l...
Former President Barack Obama, whose wife Michelle famously said, “When they go low, we go high,” decided he had no interest in dignity, lampooning former President Trump as someone wearing adult diapers.
Speaking at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday night, Obama asked the audience, “’Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?” When a member of the audience called out, “His own!” Obama laughed, “I almost said that, but I decided I should not say it.”
In 2016, at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama spoke of raising her two daughters, saying, “We insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. How we explain that when someone is cruel, or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level -– no, our motto is, when they go low, we go high. With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models. And let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as president and first lady, because we know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but to children across this country …”
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Obama made a crude hand gesture when he spoke of Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
In 2016, Obama decried “vulgar and divisive rhetoric” in politics, saying, “I know that I’m not the only one in this room who may be more than a little dismayed about what’s happening on the campaign trail lately.”
The Left has been touting Obama as dignified for years; The Washington Post published an opinion piece in 2017 lauding Obama this way: “On Tuesday night, Obama delivered a farewell address in the cool and collected manner we’ve come to expect from him. … It isn’t in the president’s nature to be vulgar or brash, and it’s a nice respite from the incoherent chaos of a Trump speech.”
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