Donald Trump is fuming after former President Barack Obama mercilessly humiliated him during a rally in Ohio on Saturday.
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011, Obama repeatedly made Trump the punchline in a brutal comedy set delivered right to Trump’s face. Trump was in the audience that night despite having just been embarrassed by the release of Obama’s birth certificate proving that he was born in the United States.
Fast forward to Saturday. Trump is president now, but he’s still a complete joke. And Obama treated him that way again during a rally supporting Ohio Democratic candidates. First, Obama took aim at Trump’s gaudy White House interior design, comparing it to something former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein would have built.
Then Obama moved on to slam Trump’s unprovoked war with Iran by reminding everyone that Iran had already been prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons through a diplomatic deal reached during his administration.
“Let’s think about this Iran war. The original rationale was, we’re going to go in there and get them to give up their nuclear program, their nuclear weapons,” Obama said. “Now, the thing was, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons, because I put a deal in place that everybody acknowledged — kept them from getting nukes. And I didn’t have to fire a missile to do it; I just had to engage in diplomacy.”
Indeed, that deal was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 2015 agreement backed up and praised by our allies and the United Nations, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran had complied with the agreement even after Trump ripped it up out of spite.
Trump reacted to Obama the way you would expect a thin-skinned person with a fragile ego would react.
“Obama was a grossly incompetent President!” Trump wrote on his social media account. “He paid off Iran with $Billions, and gave them a road to a Nuclear Weapon.”
His attack isn’t true, of course. Obama merely released some money that already belonged to Iran for complying with the JCPOA, which was preventing Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. In fact, Trump was preparing to hand far more money to Iran than Obama ever did, which even drew criticism from Republicans.
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