The headline under Obama reads, “Obama: Trump’s doom-and-gloom doesn’t match reality.”
Obama also said this yesterday, in response to Trump’s speech at the RNC convention:
President Barack Obama this afternoon dismissed Donald Trump’s doom and gloom speech Thursday night at the Republican convention as a distortion of what’s happening in America.
‘This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn’t really jive with the experience of most people,’ Obama stated.
The exiting president says he didn’t watch Republicans’ convention. But he did see the news clips, he said today, and thinks Trump and the Republican Party have it wrong. ‘Some of the fears that were expressed throughout the week just don’t jive with the facts,’ Obama said.
The crime rate in America has went down since Republican hero Ronald Reagan was president, Obama said Friday afternoon.
So have the incidences of murder and violence and intentional killing of police officers, even though it may not seem that way based on the violence recently in American cities. Illegal immigration has also slowed, he protested.
‘We have put unprecedented resources at our border,’ Obama asserted.
Read the whole story here.
h/t Twitchy
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