Trump mocks Obama for saying he could have beaten him if he were allowed to run again

Donald Trump blasted Barack Obama on Monday for claiming he might have gained a 3rd time period within the White Home if he had been the Democratic nominee as a substitute of Hillary Clinton. 

'President Obama mentioned that he thinks he would have gained towards me,' the president-elect tweeted. 'He ought to say that however I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, and so on.'

Disappearing jobs, the shortcomings of the Obamacare medical insurance coverage overhaul regulation and the rise of the ISIS terror military had been main marketing campaign themes Trump leveraged to attract traces of distinction between himself and the Democrats. 

Moments after the primary tweet, Trump delivered a broadside to the United Nations following an anti-Israel vote that Obama selected to not veto.

'The United Nations has such nice potential however proper now it's only a membership for folks to get collectively, speak and have an excellent time. So unhappy!' he wrote. 

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Donald Trump clobbered outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama on Monday for claiming he might have crushed the billionaire in a head-to-head election matchup

'NO WAY': Trump blasted the president for suggesting that the election outcome would have been totally different if a 3rd Obama time period had been one of many choices voters might select

'So unhappy!' Trump claimed the United Nations is little greater than an elite social membership, following a vote on Friday that angered 

Obama, enjoying golf on Monday, advised CNN that he might have mobilized People round his unity imaginative and prescient and gained a 3rd time period if the Structure allowed him to run once more

The president framed nationwide unity by way of 'one America that's tolerant and various and open, and stuffed with vitality and dynamism'

CNN on Monday printed an interview that former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod carried out together with his previous boss, who claimed the imaginative and prescient of a united America he pressured in his well-known 2004 Democratic Nationwide Conference keynote speech remains to be highly effective sufficient that it may need carried the day.

'You understand, I'm assured on this imaginative and prescient as a result of I am assured that if I – if I had run once more and articulated it, I believe I might've mobilized a majority of the American folks to rally behind it.'

'I do know that in conversations that I've had with folks across the nation, even some individuals who disagreed with me, they might say, "The imaginative and prescient, the route that you just level in direction of is the appropriate one",' he mentioned.

Obama claimed that Republicans together with former Fox Information Channel CEO Roger Ailes and Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell 'mobilized a backlash to this imaginative and prescient' with a purpose to beat Democrats up and down the poll.

A part of Trump's commonplace stump speech promised People that he would unite them as 'one folks, underneath one God, saluting one American flag.'

Obama claimed that prime floor for himself, saying the GOP proved it 'can simply simply throw sand within the gears' and produce nationwide disunity. 

He accused Republicans of believing 'that if we simply say "no," then that can puncture the balloon, that each one this speak about hope and alter and "no pink state and blue state" is – is confirmed to be a mirage, a fantasy.'

The president framed nationwide unity by way of 'one America that's tolerant and various and open, and stuffed with vitality and dynamism,' claiming his time in workplace has produced that angle 'in all kinds of how.'

'It manifests itself in communities all throughout the nation. We see it on this youthful technology that's smarter, extra tolerant, extra modern, extra inventive, extra entrepreneurial, wouldn't even take into consideration, you already know, discriminating someone towards, for instance, due to their sexual orientation,' he mentioned.

Trump was castigated by the political left for prejudices of every kind however insisted on defending 'the LGBT neighborhood' in dozens of speeches earlier than cheering Republicans, and famously defended transgender icon Caitlin Jenner's proper to make use of whichever toilet she wished in his Trump Tower skyscraper.

The lame duck Obama blamed Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnel for proving Republicans know how you can 'throw sand within the gears' that Democrats flip politically 

Obama additionally mentioned within the CNN interview printed Monday that he won't keep on the sidelines and let his successor have the highlight all to himself, if Trump's presidency raises 'foundational points about our democracy.'

He appeared to be firing a warning shot that whereas he has no fast plans to be vocal as a former president, that may change if he thinks the Trump administration threatens his personal values.

'I've to be quiet for some time. And I do not imply politically, I imply internally,' he mentioned. 

'At a sure level, you make room for brand spanking new voices and recent legs,' Obama defined, speaking largely about the necessity to let up-and-coming Democrats discover their very own public voices.

However 'that does not imply that if a yr from now, or a year-and-a-half from now, or two years from now, there is a matter of such second, such import, that is not only a debate a few explicit tax invoice or, you already know, a selected coverage, however goes to some foundational points about our democracy, that I won't weigh in,' the lame duck president defined.

'You understand, I am nonetheless a citizen and that carries with it duties and obligations.'

It is conventional for former presidents to carry their tongues and keep away from criticizing the lads who take over the Oval Workplace after they cross the baton.

George W. Bush has repeatedly declined to touch upon Obama's decisions, a lot of which unraveled his insurance policies. 

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