Politics & Government
Trump Speaks Ahead Of Obama's DNC Address
"They did such a bad job that I stand before you as president," Trump said during Wednesday's news briefing.
Reporting by the Associated Press
President Donald Trump is pushing back against a reproach from former President Barack Obama, who is set to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
Trump said in a Wednesday evening news conference that the reason he is now in the White House is because Obama and Joe Biden, his opponent this November, did not do a good job.
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Trump said, “They did such a bad job that I stand before you as president.”
He said if they had done a good job, he wouldn’t have even run for president in 2016. He says, “I would have been very happy. I enjoyed my previous life very much.”
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Excerpts of Obama’s remarks released ahead of Wednesday’s convention show he will portray his successor as having unleashed America’s “worst impulses” and treated the presidency as a reality show “to get the attention he craves.”
Watch a replay of the Trump news briefing on the White House's YouTube channel.
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