Michelle Obama shades Trump in new address to Americans
Michelle Obama has slammed U.S. president Donald Trump’s leadership qualities and ineffective way of handling the coronavirus pandemic.
Obama said this in her virtual address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
She went on to say her strategy had always been to ‘go high’ when the opposition ‘go low’, but emphasised this did not mean ‘putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty’.
She continued: ‘If you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this: if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can; and they will if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.’
Michelle Obama referenced the recent Black Lives Matter protests cross the US, sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who were both killed by police officers.
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She described the Trump administration of providing ‘chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy’ towards the movement, before describing how children were now seeing what happens ‘when we stop requiring empathy of one another’.
She also said in her speech, ‘They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe. They see people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin. ‘They see an entitlement that says only certain people belong here, that greed is good, and winning is everything because as long as you come out on top, it doesn’t matter what happens to everyone else.’ She added: ‘They see our leaders labelling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protesters for a photo-op.’
She noted that the US is ‘under-performing not simply on matters of policy, but on matters of character’, before going on to describe Joe Biden as a ‘profoundly decent man’ in contrast in Trump.
Daily Times gathered that Bernie Sanders, the progressive Vermont senator who was Biden’s last standing rival during the primary, also used his DNC speech to speak out against Trump, warning Americans: ‘The future of our democracy is at stake.’
He said: ‘We must come together, defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as our next president and vice president. My friends, the price of failure is just too great to imagine.’ Describing the Trump administration as ‘frauds’, he went on: ‘In 2016, Trump promised he would stand with working families. He said that he would “drain the swamp,” take on Wall Street and powerful special interests. ‘He would protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, he would provide health care to “everybody.” Well. None of it was true.’
