Obama criticizes Trump in scathing, personal terms

Barack Obama is hitting President Donald Trump right where he thinks it’ll hurt most: His ego.

Campaigning for Joe Biden on Saturday, former president painted Trump as insecure and self-absorbed, describing him as a failed president who cares more about himself than country.

“Trump cares about feeding his ego. Joe cares about keeping you and your family safe,” Obama said in Flint, Michigan.

In a scathing speech, Obama mocked and belittled Trump for everything from president’s criticism of media cover of coronavirus pandemic — Trump, he said, was “jealous of COVID’s media cover” — to his “obsession with crowd size.”

“He’s still worried about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. It really bugs him. He’s still talking about that. Does he have thing better to worry about?” Obama said. “Did one come to his birthday party as a kid? Was he traumatized?”

After delivering a sober indictment of Trump’s presidency and warning that America’s democracy is at stake this election at Democratic National Convention, Obama has taken on a more ligharted approach since returning to campaign trail earlier this month for Biden. personal attacks on Trump have been a centerpiece of Obama's campaign pitch, and he seems to relish opportunity to needle his successor. On Saturday, Obama at times smiled as he jabbed president and often sounded incredulous at state of his ministration.

“ president wants to get credit for ecomy he inherited and zero blame for pandemic he igred,” Obama said.

Obama also dinged Trump on his masculinity. Without mentioning president directly, Obama said that “kindness, humility, responsibility, helping somebody else out” used to be “ definition of manliness.”

“t strutting and showing off. Acting important and bullying people,” Obama said. “It used to be being a man meant taking care of or people. t going around bragging.”

It's a me Biden echoed in his own speech, saying that Trump is “t strong, weak,” in reference to moment when U.N. delegates laughed at president.

Obama himself has been pushing personal attacks on Trump all week. Earlier this week in Florida he joked that “Florida Man wouldn’t even do” some of things Trump has done, a reference to a comical meme highlighting news cover of oddball and often reckless conduct that seems to come frequently from Florida residents. In Philelphia earlier this month, Obama needled Trump for his Chinese bank account, joking that if he’d done same while running for reelection “y would’ve called me Beijing Barry.”

Trump, meanwhile, has taken his own jabs at Obama, declaring at a rth Carolina rally earlier this month that Obama was “all over place” campaigning for Hillary Clinton before she lost in 2016 and suggesting Obama wasn't enthusiastic for Biden's candidacy.

president ded: “I think only one more unhappy than crooked Hillary that night was Barack Hussein Obama.”