tolkienteacher: micdotcom: Obama to Trump: “Stop…
Obama to Trump: “Stop whining”
Donald Trump has stepped up his accusations that the election will be “rigged,” and in response President Obama told him to “stop whining” and focus on getting votes. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, Obama continued by explaining what he’d expect of Hillary Clinton if Trump won.
I shall miss this man so much.
Trump’s actually been uncharacteristically strategic at not taking the bait (so far) either from the Michelle speech in New Hampshire and now this speech from Barack yesterday. In both cases the Obamas have gone out of their way to tweak him personally. Not that they’ve said anything untrue or unjustified. But just that they’ve made a point of putting themselves out there in a high-profile way calling him out with language guaranteed to push his buttons.
As with Alicia Machado, it’s clearly designed to get him to lash out, to squander his opportunity to attack Hillary by instead filling news cycles with attacks on people who are a) sympathetic and/or popular and b) not Hillary. The internal struggle inside the Trump campaign to keep him from going off over the last few days must have been intense.
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