WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized Michelle Obama, calling her Democratic National Convention speech “divided” and inaccurate.
“It was a divisive speech. Lack of facts and it was out of date. It was all old. It was probably done two or three weeks ago,” Trump said in Yuma, Arizona, where he received an update on the construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico.
Trump responded to the series of criticisms he faced Monday on the first night of the Democratic convention. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign set up an event that was largely aimed at delivering a shocking critique of Trump and his first term in office, with a series of speakers presenting the case for it. U.S. public made the Republicans unfit to hold office.
Trump continued his criticism of the former First Lady during a campaign speech at Yuma airport, telling supporters that Democrats want to “bring unity, and then listen to the speech of Michelle Obama, who was outdated by the time it got there. “
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Obama added her address in advance, saying Trump was “in the head” and that the number of coronavirus deaths she was receiving was lower than the current total. Democrats are holding their convention soon after the cancellation of the larger assembly because of the ongoing pandemic.
“They talk about me being a divider. I’m not a divider,” Trump said. “We brought people together like never before and then we were hit by the China virus.”
The Trump campaign has sought to portray Biden as a ‘puppet’ for the party’s more progressive wing, a message that the president echoed on Tuesday.
“I think his new boss is Bernie Sanders, can you believe it?” Trump said of Biden. “Socialism is the mainstream of the Biden campaign.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Spoke at the DNC on Monday night as several high-profile Republican politicians threw their support behind Biden. In the primary, Biden was often critical of Sanders liberal policies on issues such as health care.
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Speaking just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump called Biden’s immigration plan the “most radical, extreme, reckless, dangerous and deadly immigration plan ever put forward by a major party candidate.”
Trump spoke to a crowd of a few hundred people in a blowing hot airplane hanger. The Trump campaign gave water and “Make America Great Again” masks to supporters as they awaited the arrival of Air Force One.
“This is like a test,” Trump said of the heat, trying to demonstrate his ability to speak in extreme weather further proof that he is more suited to office. “You think Joe Biden could do it?”
