President Barack Obama suggested that the United States could look like Nazi Germany if President Trump wins his reelection bid.
While campaigning for his former vice president, Joe Biden, Obama warned in a recent fundraiser that another four years of the current administration could have dire consequences.
“The endpoint of that we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago — what happens when those things get unleashed,” Obama said, according to the New York Times. “You don’t nip that in the bud, bad things can happen. Among the most quote, unquote civilized societies.”
Across his fundraising efforts, Obama has accused Trump of stoking hate and fear. During an event with Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, Obama blamed his successor for stoking “anti-Asian sentiment” through his repeated identification of the coronavirus as the “China flu” and the “Kung flu,” and he said that it “still shocks and pisses me off.”
The 44th president also took shots at conservative media while trying to promote Biden.
In another virtual campaign event, Obama, who was joined by J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire governor of Illinois, said Trump’s “filters [sic] out any contradictory information.”
“It’s just glued to Fox News and Breitbart and Limbaugh and just this conservative echo chamber — and so, they’re going to turn out to vote,” Obama said. “What he has unleashed and what he continues to try to tap into is the fears and anger and resentment of people who, in some cases, really are having a tough time and have seen their prospects, or communities where they left, declining. And Trump tries to tap into that and redirect in nativist, racist, sexist ways.”
In two months of participating in fundraisers for Biden, Obama has raised approximately $24 million for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
