5 Deepest Burns Aimed At Trump From The Obamas And Other DNC Speakers
The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday centered on a star-powered roll call naming Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as their candidates.
Then, they turned up the heat on Donald Trump.
Michelle Obama brought down the house with a rousing speech with numerous high points across its nearly 22 minutes.
But the former first lady got some of her biggest applause when she made a reference to one of Trump’s inflammatory comments at June’s debate when the former president claimed migrants were taking millions of “Black jobs.”
“Who’s gonna tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?” Obama said to cheers:
She was a tough act to follow, but her husband tried anyway as former President Barack Obama delivered a rousing speech of his own.
Obama slammed Trump for “whining” and warned that putting him back in office would lead to “four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos.”
“We have seen that movie before,” Obama said. “And we all know that the sequel is usually worse.”
But the biggest response may have come when Obama took a shot at one of Trump’s pet topics: the size of his crowds, which has diminished lately as a growing number of bored supporters head for the exits while he’s still speaking.
“There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes,” Obama said, using his hands for emphasis as the audience laughed. “It just goes on, and on, and on.”
Another zinger with a hand gesture came not at the DNC itself but at a secondary event in Wisconsin featuring Harris and Walz which was held in the same arena that hosted the RNC last month.
Walz mocked Trump and the RNC for lacking the energy of the raucous