Despite Barack Obama’s decision to steer clear of commenting on President Donald Trump after leaving the presidential seat, he broke his unwritten rule recently. Following Obama’s comments, Fox Business commentator, Lou Dobbs, said the former president should be arrested.
During a leadership forum in India – in response to a question regarding Michelle Obama’s recent comment about how it’s “never a good idea to tweet from bed” – a not so subtle nudge at Trump’s morning tweeting habits, Obama expanded on the remark.
“Michelle was giving the general idea… Don’t say the first thing that pops into your head. Have a little bit of an edit function. Think before you speak. Think before you tweet,” said Obama.
Although a former U.S. president saying one should think before posting online hardly counts for slander, Lou Dobbs takes this sentence as a form of Obama “blasting” Trump, and commented about it in his Friday slot.
“Call it an unwritten rule – a matter of decorum among the small fraternity of men who once held the title leader of the free world,” Dobbs told the media chairman, and editor in chief, Steve Forbes, of Forbes, sitting in at his show.
“I mean, this is just bad manners,” continued Dobbs. “He should be brought back by the marshals. Isn’t there some law that says presidents shouldn’t be attacking sitting presidents?”
Obama is currently in a sort of shadow tour of Asia and has made stronger statements defending his legacy against Trump’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, ending the United States participation in the Paris climate accord, and his imposition of stricter immigration limits. Obama even encouraged Americans to protest against Trump’s move to ban citizens from Muslim countries.
He isn’t the only president to speak up against Trump, with both George W. Bush in a 16-minute address criticizing the current political system, and Bush’s father much more straightforwardly calling Trump “a blowhard.”
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