Former President Barack Obama said he is “deeply concerned” about some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call the Republican party for not delaying them.
Obama rebuked Trump without explicitly appointing him for the threats of the federal government against universities and students who exercise freedom of expression, their objective of law firms and the new rates imposed on foreign countries.
“I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs will be good for the United States, but that is a specific policy,” Obama said in his comments at Hamilton College in New York. “I am more deeply concerned about a federal government that threatens universities if they do not renounce students who exercise their right to freedom of expression,” he said.
Obama said that he is more concerned with a White House that points to law firms that represent ideas or parties with which his occupants do not agree and that the Administration has punished the media. Trump has signed executive orders penalizing the main firms of lawyers and lawyers, which caused outrage within the legal community. The White House has also prohibited Associated Press to cover on its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
“That type of behavior is contrary to the basic compact that we have as Americans,” he said.
Obama suggested that the Republicans would be indignant if there were things similar to those of the president.
“Imagine if I had extracted the Fox News credentials from the White House Press Corps,” he said, he added: “It is unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like me or a lot of my predecessors.”
He added: “I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious, which is who we are as a country and what values do we defend?”
His final message during his speech was that “the story in Zigs and the ZOG and there are moments of conflict and there are moments of stupidity and there are danger times”, but wants people to remain resistant.
“Don’t discourage you,” he said. “I know it’s a little crazy right now, but we’re going well.”
Former vice president Kamala Harris also spoke against the Trump administration at the summit defined by women in California on Thursday. She said that the country is witnessing “progress is going back” and a “feeling of fear” is strengthened throughout the country.
“We are seeing those who are capitulating clearly unconstitutional threats,” he said. “And these are the things we are witnessing every day in recent months in our country. And understandably creates a great sense of fear.”
Harris, who has maintained a low profile since he lost to Trump in the presidential elections of November, said that “fear has a way of being contagious” but that “courage is also contagious.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on their comments.
Michele Norris contributed.
