President Obama Rips and Humiliates Trump And Carson In Front Of The Entire World

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:38 pm

President Obama took apart top Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson in front of the entire world during his press conference in Turkey.

Video of President Obama’s full press conference:

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Obama threw down on Ben Carson’s claim that he has better advisers and info than the White House, “I think it is entirely appropriate in a democracy to have a serious debate about these issues, Folks want to pop off and have opinions on what they think they would do, present a specific plan,” Obama said. “If they think that somehow their advisers are better than the chairman of my Joint Chiefs of Staff or the folks on the ground, I want to meet them and we can have that debate.”

The President also took down Trump, “What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership, or America winning or whatever slogans they come up with, that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and protect people in the region who are getting killed, and to protect our allies and people like France. I’m too busy for that.”

Obama is not putting up with the usual empty talk coming out of the Republican Party. Trump and Carson are both at the top of the GOP presidential polls because they are selling a style that appeals to Republican primary voters. What is missing in both candidates is substance. Neither leading Republican candidate has been able to explain in any detail how they would combat ISIS and terrorism.

When Ben Carson was asked for details during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, he unleashed a crazy worldview that somehow ended in the United States involved in a shooting war with Russia in Syria. For his part, Trump thinks that defeating ISIS is like a business deal. Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that he will defeat ISIS by sitting down and talking tough with them.

The only other Republican “plan” belongs to Jeb Bush and the neo-cons who want to return to the failed Middle East policy of the George W. Bush years. As usual, the Republicans are long on criticism, but short on real solutions. While Trump and Carson pander to an increasingly delusional Republican primary electorate for votes, President Obama is trying to work the global community to defeat ISIS.

Obama’s message to Carson and Trump was to put up or shut up. President Obama showed Trump and Carson the difference between pretending to be president and actually being president.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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