President Obama admitted Monday that this campaign cycle has gotten to him because of some of the “crazy stuff” Donald Trump and his supporters have said about Hillary Clinton.
“I will tell you,” Obama said at a Clinton rally at the University of Michigan. “Sometimes I get frustrated watching the coverage of this election. There’s a bunch of it that has not been on the level. But I want to tell you something right now, the way campaigns have unfolded, we just start accepting crazy stuff as normal. And people, if they just repeat a text enough, and outright lies over and over again, as long as it’s on Facebook and people can see it, as long as it’s on social media, people start believing it, and it creates this dust cloud of nonsense.”
“So I’ve had to bite my tongue after a lot of the nonsense I’ve heard about Hillary,” Obama said, continuing his theme that Republican nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have taken political discourse to a new low. “I know Chelsea has. Can you imagine? Just crazy conspiracy theorizing,” Obama said, referring to Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, who introduced him at the rally in Ann Arbor.
“The end of every campaign brings all kinds of craziness,” Obama said, telling supporters to block out the “noise” and got vote Tuesday.
“Over the weekend his campaign took away his Twitter account,” Obama said about Trump’s penchant for ranting on Twitter and lobbing cheap shots at opponents over the social network. “Now, if you’re closest advisers don’t trust you to tweet, then how can we trust him with the nuclear codes? He’s unqualified to be America’s chief executive.”
Obama said a Trump presidency would be devastating to the Wolverine State, and slammed him for saying the auto companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt.
“Just last summer Donald Trump said you could’ve let it go bankrupt. Wow. I want you to understand, had the Big Three gone bankrupt… that could have cost a million jobs across the country. That could’ve killed Michigan’s economy,” Obama said referring to General Motors, Chrysler and Ford.
Obama ticked off what he’s done for the auto industry and said factories jobs are growing at the fastest rate since the ’90s “when another Clinton was president. I think we’ve earned some credibility here. So when I tell you that Donald Trump is not the guy who is going to look out for you, you need to listen,” Obama said. “Do not be bamboozled; don’t fall for the okie-doke.”
Obama also said Trump is ignorant of world affairs and doesn’t care.
“It’s bad being arrogant when you know what you’re talking about,” Obama said. “It’s really bad being arrogant when you don’t know what you’re taking about.”
