Former President Barack Obama viciously took down former President Donald Trump in his first solo campaign appearance in support of Vice President Kamala Harris.
During his speech at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday evening, Obama hinted that he believed Trump, 78, was wearing adult diapers.
Obama, 63, recalled that he couldn’t believe how expensive diapers were as he got older. “Do you think Donald Trump has ever changed a diaper?” he mused.
“From himself!” an audience member shouted back.
“I almost said that, but I decided I shouldn’t say it,” Obama said, laughing.
He also went after Trump for selling products during his presidential run.
Former President Barack Obama viciously took down former President Donald Trump during his first solo appearance on the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris
Obama called out Trump for his “tweeting in all caps” and his “rants and rants about crazy conspiracy theories.”
“You have the two-hour speeches, word salad, it’s like Fidel Castro and so on; constant attempts to sell you stuff,” the Democrat continued.
‘Who does that?’ he mused. “He will sell you gold sneakers and a 100,000 watch and most recently a Trump Bible.”
“He wants you to buy the word of God, the Donald Trump edition, his name next to Matthew and Luke,” Obama said. “If you saw it on Saturday Night Live you’d be like, no, that’s going too far…It’s crazy.”
Obama began his 45-minute speech by saying he understood why people were frustrated in the current political climate.
Swing State polls show the race will be extremely tight in 2024.
“Let’s be honest, we’ve been through a lot in recent years,” he admitted.
Former President Barack Obama hinted to the crowd in Pittsburgh that former President Donald Trump, 78, wore adult diapers and mocked him for selling sneakers and Bibles during his presidential campaign.
He cited the pandemic and the country’s overall economic woes, especially those felt by “working people.”
“So I understand why people want to shake things up,” he said. “I’m the hopey-changey guy.”
“What I don’t understand is why anyone would think Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that’s good for Pennsylvania,” he continued. “Because there is absolutely no evidence that this man is thinking about anyone but himself.”
He later made a similar point, referring to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“If Donald Trump doesn’t care about a mob attacking his own vice president, do you think he cares about you?” the ex-president asked.
During his speech, Obama asked the audience if Trump did everyday things.
He commented on how Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could take apart a truck.
“Have you, Donald Trump, ever changed a tire in your life?” the ex-president said with a chuckle. “I’m just trying to imagine it.”
The comment about the diaper was made in a similar manner.
Obama also sought to support Harris in areas where polls show her weak — including the economy and immigration.
The Democratic ex-president noted how Trump gets credit for a good economy during his term.
“Yeah, it was pretty good because it was my economy,” Obama boasted. “It wasn’t something he did.”
“I spent eight years cleaning up the mess the Republicans left me,” Obama added.
Obama took office in 2009, right after a financial crash caused by predatory lending to low-income housing borrowers.
Trump has made immigration his top issue in 2024, just as he did when he first ran for the White House eight years ago.
‘When I hear Donald Trump talk, I have one question. If I remember correctly, Donald Trump was four years old. And if rounding up and deporting millions of desperate people and building the beautiful wall – and it didn’t matter if some of those people you rounded up were women and children – if that’s the answer to everything, why not have the problem solved? the problem?’
The opening acts for Obama included a number of Pennsylvania Democrats, including the state’s popular Governor Josh Shapiro, a finalist to become Harris’ running mate.
“I have a message for Donald Trump: stop talking about America,” an excited Shapiro said. “He’s so unfit to lead,” he sneered at Harris, “someone who cares.”
Polls prior to Obama’s appearance in Pittsburgh showed him as a more popular figure than Harris in Pennsylvania.
The ex-president is also more popular than Trump.
An Emerson College poll conducted in conjunction with The Hill found that 55 percent of Pennsylvanians have a positive view of Obama, compared to 48 percent for Harris and 50 percent for Trump.
Obama also received higher marks than the two presidential candidates in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan – meaning he could be a useful vote anywhere in the battleground.
But Pennsylvania – nicknamed the Keystone State – will likely be key to Harris or Trump’s victory on November 5, as the path to 270 electoral votes becomes highly unlikely if either candidate loses it.
University of Pittsburgh students who attended the event told DailyMail.com that the 63-year-old former president was still hip.
‘Absolute. 1,000 percent. I just think he’s so influential and inspiring. The first black president – that especially means a lot to me,” said 19-year-old Pitt sophomore Ava Nicholas.
She reiterated that Obama could inspire “1,000 percent” of young people to vote for Harris.
“Just the amount of influence he still has even though he’s not president anymore,” Nicholas continued.
Fellow Pitt sophomore Jade Davis, 20, spoke of the “huge impact” Obama had on her and her colleagues as the first black president and the first biracial president “even if some of us weren’t born yet or were very young,” she said. commented. ‘
“I feel like this is like, even if I was little, I just won’t be able to forget it,” Davis said.
When asked if Obama was considered “cool,” she replied in the affirmative.
“Yes, and I feel like he’s just a nice person, that’s what sets him apart from other politicians,” Davis said. ‘He’s very handsome. With others they can be a little stiff or you can’t really get to know them on a personal level, but I feel like he’s very open.”
“He even has a book about his life,” she added.
However, in a sign that Harris could not get the margins she needs in Pennsylvania because of the war in Gaza, the youth of DailyMail.com also knew colleagues who refused to vote on the Biden administration’s support for Israel.
“I know many people who are choosing not to vote for Kamala Harris at all, for example because of the complicity of the Biden administration,” Nicholas acknowledged, saying she believed this was “dangerous.”
“I feel like every vote that isn’t voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz right now is a vote for Donald Trump,” Nicholas said.
Nicholas said she believed potential abstainers could be placed in Harris’ column.
“I think it’s definitely a moveable position,” Nicholas said.
Davis said it would help “if Kamala took more of a stand on it, but maybe not right now.”
Harris has sought to divide differences over Gaza, saying she continues to support Israel’s right to defend itself but condemns the killing of Palestinian civilians.
The choice of Walz was seen as an attempt to sweeten her candidacy among the pro-Palestinian left, but groups like Uncommitt — which started in the swing state of Michigan — have so far declined to endorse her.