'You ain't all that tough': Obama mocks Trump over 60 Minutes interview

[mystery-ak]

'You ain't all that tough': Obama mocks Trump over 60 Minutes interview
by Spencer Neale, Breaking News Reporter |
 | October 24, 2020 05:15 PM

Former President Barack Obama mocked President Trump's performance during an interview on an upcoming episode of 60 Minutes.

Speaking during a campaign rally supporting Democratic nominee Joe Biden in South Florida on Saturday, Obama jabbed Trump over the interview with host Lesley Stahl, footage of which Trump preemptively shared this week after accusing the reporter and the network of unfairly attacking him throughout the meeting.

"When 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain't all that tough," Obama said. "If you got to walk out of a 60 Minutes interview, then you're never going to stand up to a dictator," added Obama as a flurry of cars honked at the socially distanced event.

more w/video
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/you-aint-all-that-tough-obama-mocks-trump-over-60-minutes-interview

[PeteS in CA]

Yawwwwwwwwn ...

[skeeter]

... playing to a flurry of honking cars. What a star.

[DCPatriot]

... playing to a flurry of honking cars. What a star.

...and a hand-held bullhorn for less than 2 dozen people, including preschoolers.   

[Lando Lincoln]

...and a hand-held bullhorn for less than 2 dozen people, including preschoolers.   

He has never been more than a community organizer.

[DCPatriot]

He has never been more than a community organizer.

Agreed, but evidently an extremely successful one given our 'American Idol' society back in 2008.   

[Cyber Liberty]

He has never been more than a community organizer.

And a rather poor one at that.  How many candidates did he stump for that ended up losing?

[mystery-ak]

Fact Check: 19 False Claims in Barack Obama’s Speech for Joe Biden in Florida

From the transcript:

1. “He doesn’t have a plan” for coronavirus. Obama cited the presidential debate on Thursday. However, the president did, in fact, specifically mention Operation Warp Speed, his plan to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine quickly.

2. Trump couldn’t answer Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes when she asked, “What’s your priority in your second term?” In fact, Trump answered her: “The priority now is to get back to normal, get back to where we were, to have the economy rage and be great with jobs and everybody be happy. And that’s where we’re going and that’s where we’re heading.”

3. “He doesn’t even acknowledge that there’s a problem” (i.e. coronavirus).  This is obviously not true, and provably so. Trump even talked about coronavirus in his State of the Union address, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripped in two.

4. Trump said “if you put some bleach in you, that might clean things up.” Trump never said that. He mentioned new, experimental technologies in UV light, and also specifically said he was not talking about putting bleach inside anyone.

5. “America created 1.5 million more jobs in the last year of the Obama-Biden administration than in the first three years of the Trump-Pence administration.” Obama seems to be saying that more jobs were created in 2016 than in 2017, 2018, and 2019 combined, which is demonstrably untrue. New revisions earlier this year indicated that slightly more jobs were created in 2016 than in any particular subsequent year. However, seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that more people were employed in each of the first three years of Trump’s presidency than in Obama’s last. In addition, Trump faced a different task. It is arguably easier to add jobs in the early stages of a recovery than it is to add jobs during a recovery already eight years old. The Obama-Biden recovery was the slowest since the Second World War.

6. Black unemployment went down, but “not because Donald Trump did anything.” It is possible to credit several Trump policies with lowering black unemployment, especially immigration enforcement. A 2007 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research noted: “immigration has more far-reaching consequences than merely depressing wages and lowering employment rates of low-skilled African-American males: its effects also appear to push some would-be workers into crime and, later, into prison.” Trump’s focus on domestic manufacturing capacity also arguably played a role.

7. “The only people truly better off than they were four years ago are the billionaires who got Trump tax cuts.” A Gallup poll recently found that 56% of registered voters said they were better off than they were four years ago, which is a record high. (That’s a lot of billionaires.) In fact, a majority of Americans received a tax cut from Trump’s 2017 tax law.

8. “He barely pays income taxes.” In fact, Trump pays tens of millions of dollars in taxes, despite losses in some years.

9. Trump has “secret Chinese bank accounts.” The Trump hotel chain used a legal bank account to pay taxes in China when it made licensing deals. It is not a personal account and the account has reportedly been inactive for five years.

10. “His first year in the White House he only paid $750 in federal income tax.” Trump paid over seven million dollars in taxes in 2017, but used a tax credit from an earlier year to pay it. Also, he donated his entire salary to the government.

11. Trump has no plan “when it comes to preexisting conditions.” The president has constantly promised to provide health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions; he issued an executive order laying out his plan in September.

12. Trump “drove up costs” under Obamacare. Actually, Obamacare premiums have been falling under Trump.

13. Trump said: “We hope the Supreme Court takes your health insurance away.” Trump never said that. He said he hoped the Supreme Court would end Obamacare (“I hope that they end it”), noting his desire to replace it with a better plan.

14. Trump is “MIA” when “Russia puts bounties on the heads of our brave soldiers in Afghanistan.” The Pentagon said that there was never “corroborating evidence” of a supposed Russian program to pay bounties for killing U.S. soldiers.

15. “Joe Biden would never call the men and women of our military suckers and losers.” Neither would Trump, because it never happened. Biden did call U.S. troops “stupid bastards,” however. (He claimed that he had been joking.)

16. Trump asked if we could “nuke hurricanes.” Even Snopes.com regards this claim as “unproven.” Obama also claimed that Trump had suggested selling Puerto Rico, which even the source for that claim says was never seriously considered.

17. Trump “cannot call out or even criticize white supremacists.” This divisive, false claim is also easily disproven.

18. Trump “threatens people with jail for just criticizing him.” This does not appear to have ever happened. Trump did threaten a reporter with prison time — after he defied instructions not to photograph a classified letter from Jim Kong-un. It was the Obama administration, that tried to prosecute journalist James Risen of the New York Times, and which jailed an obscure filmmaker after it blamed an obscure anti-Islamic YouTube video for the Benghazi terror attack in September 2012.

19. The EPA is “giving polluters free reign to dump unlimited poison into our air and water.” Demonstrably untrue. Obama delivered several other attacks on members of Trump’s Cabinet in the same vein (“declared war on workers” etc.).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/24/fact-check-19-false-claims-in-barack-obamas-speech-for-joe-biden-in-florida/

[Lando Lincoln]

Lord, please forgive me.  I detest the Left.

[rustynail]

Careful there jug ears.

[Lando Lincoln]

Careful there jug ears.

Question:  Did the fainting woman make an appearance?

[Victoria33]

No matter what you say about him, the left still loves him and would vote however he tells them.  I think his speech in Florida will mean more voting for Biden, meaning they are more likely to vote than stay home after hearing him.

[PeteS in CA]

1. “He doesn’t have a plan” for coronavirus. Obama cited the presidential debate on Thursday. However, the president did, in fact, specifically mention Operation Warp Speed, his plan to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine quickly.

Even before OWS was announced (May 15th) on April 17th the NIH announced a partnership to speed up the development, testing, and approval of treatments and vaccines. Going back farther, Trump started planned and coordinated use of the Defense Production Act in late March, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-prioritizing-allocating-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/ , https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/18/secretary-azar-statement-president-trumps-invoking-defense-production-act.html . Going farther back in time:

* March 16, 2020 - Testing of Moderna's experimental coronavirus vaccine began at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/recent-news/news-2020/kaiser-permanente-launches-coronavirus-vaccine-study-seattle , https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/16/hhs-secretary-azar-statement-on-launch-of-phase-1-covid-19-vaccine-trial.html , https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-investigational-vaccine-covid-19-begins

* March 12, 2020 - AbCellera and Eli Lilly announced an agreement to develop antibody products for treatment and prevention of COVID-19; part of a 2018 DARPA program with AbCellera; http://lilly.mediaroom.com/2020-03-12-AbCellera-and-Lilly-to-Co-develop-Antibody-Therapies-for-the-Treatment-of-COVID-19 , https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/eli-lilly-joins-race-to-develop-coronavirus-treatment/ar-BB116BNR

* March 4, 2020 - HHS announced intent to purchase 500 million N95 respirators over the next 18 months for the Strategic National Stockpile; https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/04/hhs-to-procure-n95-respirators-to-support-healthcare-workers-in-covid-19-outbreaks.html

* February 29, 2020 - Testing labs allowed to use tests whose FDA Emergency Use Authorization requests are still pending; https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-new-policy-help-expedite-availability-diagnostics

* February 26, 2020 - Experimental vaccine submitted for testing; Moderna, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html

* February 18, 2020 - HHS to work with Sanofi Pasteur to develop coronavirus vaccine and treatment; https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/18/sanofi-announces-it-will-work-with-hhs-to-develop-coronavirus-vaccine/

* February 18, 2020 - HHS to work with Janssen Research to develop a Covid-19 vaccine; https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/02/18/hhs-janssen-collaborate-to-develop-coronavirus-therapeutics.html

* January 31, 2020 - People entering the US from China forbidden; Announced January 31, effective February 2; https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.html , https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/ ; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-members-presidents-coronavirus-task-force/

* January 29, 2020 - White House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force; https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480627-white-house-announces-task-force-to-monitor-coronavirus , https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-presidents-coronavirus-task-force/

* NIH was working with Moderna on a vaccine, January 22, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/moderna-is-working-on-a-vaccine-for-chinas-deadly-coronavirus.html , https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-funding-award-cepi-accelerate-development

* January 17, 2020 - The US started screening arriving passengers from China; JFK, SFO, LAX https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ,  https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0117-coronavirus-screening.html ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson
January 22, 2020 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/

Obviously I could have given a ginormous number of milestones, but this sample suffices to show Trump's efforts were planned, from the very start. What I've seen, in my ~40 pages-long file tracking events (linked in my signature) is multitudinous evidences of careful, multi-pronged planning and execution.

[kevindavis007]

Says the man who gave tens of millions to the Iranians.

[Cyber Liberty]

Says the man who gave tens of millions to the Iranians.

More like Billions.

[Wingnut]

No matter what you say about him, the left still loves him and would vote however he tells them.  I think his speech in Florida will mean more voting for Biden, meaning they are more likely to vote than stay home after hearing him.

Stick to spouting off about Texas polotics and leave FL to the people on the ground.   Mkay sweet cheeks.

[Right_in_Virginia]

No matter what you say about him, the left still loves him and would vote however he tells them.  I think his speech in Florida will mean more voting for Biden, meaning they are more likely to vote than stay home after hearing him.

More nonsense @Victoria33  You need to pay attention to what's actually happening ... in the real world.

The OBiden love of Hispanic dictators and disdain for entrepreneurship have pushed the Latinos away from OBiden in Florida and to the President.

The democrat do nothing record gave birth to the BLEXIT movement and Black Americans are running to President Trump.