Bristol Palin had harsh words for President Obama’s decision to invite the Texas teenager to the White House who was wrongly accused of bringing a bomb to school.
On Monday, ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that his teachers mistook for a bomb. Later in the day, President Obama tweeted his support for Mohamed, which included an invitation to the White House:
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.
— President Obama (@POTUS44) September 16, 2015
Palin, daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, panned the tweet in a post on her Patheos blog.
“This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of,” she wrote. “This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ crowd and encourages victimhood.”
She wrote that the police “clearly” made a mistake, and said Obama taking a stance on the situation would only cause more problems.
“But why put more people against them?” Palin wrote. “Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country … even more today than when he was elected.”
Since his unfortunate arrest, Mohamed has been showered with support in the form of an #IStandWithAhmed Twitter movement. He even received an invitation to attend U.S. Space Camp in Alabama from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and MIT astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinsten invited him to visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
NASA engineer Bobak Ferdowski all but offered Mohamed a job in this tweet:
Hey Ahmed, give me a call in a couple years. We could always use smart, curious & creative people. https://t.co/02a4feMrk5
— Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) September 16, 2015
