WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was not at the "Three Amigos" summit of North American leaders Wednesday, but his presence hung over the continental conference anyway. The leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico took turns rebutting the Republican presidential candidate's proposals on trade and immigration. As they met in Ottawa, Trump was 340 miles away in Bangor, Maine, promising to build a wall at the Mexican border and get the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement that forms the basis of economic cooperation among the three countries.
In what he himself called a press conference-ending "rant," President Obama took a whack at Trump's populist credentials, painting the billionaire real estate mogul as part of the global elite.
"Now somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, who has never fought on behalf of social justice issues," Obama said, "they don’t suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes. That's not the measure of populism. That's nativism or xenophobia or worse. Or it’s just cynicism."
He reassured his neighbors that their alliances with the United States will survive no matter who's elected: "We should take some of his rhetoric seriously and answer it boldly and clearly, but you shouldn’t take that as representative of how the American people think," he said.
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Poster Comment:
The bastards are going to kill him.