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Barack Obama has criticized the Trump administration’s handling of its “failed” response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The former US president says the White House has “spoiled” any attempt to control Covid-19. Source: Reuters
The former US president spoke to Florida International University students at a rally as the country reached a grim new milestone, breaking new records for the most infections in one day to 83,000.
“This president. He wants all the credit for the economy he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored,” Obama said.
“Tweeting TV shows doesn’t fix things and making up conspiracies doesn’t improve people’s lives.”
Obama said his successor has failed at every opportunity given to fix the state of the crippling economy in the United States and could have avoided the crushing impact that the deadly virus has had.
He said the pandemic would have been difficult for any president, but “the idea that this White House has done anything but screw this up is bullshit.
“We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook that showed them how to respond before a virus reaches our shores. It may have been lost along with the Republican health plan.”
Obama also referred to the volatile behavior of the current president and his unpredictability in operating as the nation’s leader.
“In fact, he asked our security experts if we could bomb hurricanes with nuclear weapons. I mean at least he didn’t because it looks like it would have been bad.”
“Maybe we shouldn’t have had a president who was on television and said that if you put a little bleach on it, it could clean things up.”
Puerto Rico’s health care and rebuilding were just two of the main controversial issues on which Obama questioned Trump’s handling after suggesting that the island nation sell itself in an attempt to buy Greenland from Denmark.
“When a hurricane devastates Puerto Rico, a president is supposed to help them rebuild, not throw away paper towels, withhold billions of dollars of aid until shortly before the election. We have a president who suggested selling Puerto Rico.”
Obama urged Biden supporters to vote early in what he described as the “most important election [his] generation will see in his life “with only 10 more days to go.
