Trump accuses Obamas of getting too ‘personal’ with their attacks

Donald Trump is complaining that Barack and Michelle Obama got a bit too personal with their attacks against the former president in their Tuesday night speeches at the Democratic National Convention.

Trump, who falsely claimed for years that former President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, asked a crowd at a rally in Asheboro, North Carolina on Wednesday if they had seen “Barack Hussein Obama… taking little shots.”

Trump has in the past used Obama’s middle name to falsely suggest that he’s Muslim.

“He was taking shots at your president and so was Michelle,” Trump said. “You know, they always say, ‘Sir, please stick to policy, don’t get personal,’ but they’re getting personal all night, these people.”

Trump’s advisors and conservative pundits have been urging the former president to target Vice President Kamala Harris’s record instead of making personal attacks against her.

Trump has repeatedly called her names and even falsely claimed that she has misrepresented her race as he appeared for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists late last month.

The former president asked the North Carolina crowd on Wednesday: “Should I get personal, or should I not get personal?”

Getting personal seemed to be the more popular option with the crowd.

Barack and Michelle Obama spoke at the DNC on Tuesday night and they appeared to leave their 2016 call “when they go low, we go high” behind and instead rallied the raucous crowd with forceful rejections of Trump.

“Going small is petty, it’s unhealthy, and, quite frankly, it’s unpresidential,” Michelle Obama told the convention.

“It’s his same old con – doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions