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Facing Rematch With Biden, Trump Stays Focused – on Obama

For former President Donald Trump, all political signs point to a rematch with President Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020 and increasingly has targeted Trump in his campaign ads.

But voters wouldn't know that from listening to Trump, who frequently brings up former President Barack Obama in speeches – even suggesting that he beat Obama in 2016 and claiming that Obama is really running the show at the White House now occupied by his former vice president.

Maybe it's personal, going back to when Obama made fun of Trump at a White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2011. Maybe Trump, who often claims Biden is cognitively impaired because of his age – three years older than Trump – is feeling the effects of advancing age himself and forgets who was president when. Or maybe Trump calculates that his base loves to hate the nation's only Black president.

But whatever the reason, Trump just can't quit Obama.

In remarks about Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Trump said, “It’s all coming through Iran, and Obama wants to – he doesn’t want to talk about it. He doesn’t want to mention – he doesn’t even mention them in his statements.”

Kilmeade corrected him. “Well, you mean President Biden,” Kilmeade said, prompting a fix-it by Trump.

“I also mean Obama. What do you mean? You know Obama and Biden,” Trump said, trying to recover. “But Obama is Biden’s boss. Guess you didn’t really know that," Trump said, adding that he had no evidence but knew it in his "gut."

More on this insanity:

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2023-11-24/facing-rematch-with-biden-trump-stays-focused-on-obama




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