Donald Trump has blasted Barack Obama for claiming he
could have won a third term in the White House if he had
been the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary Clinton.
What happened was CNN on Monday published an
interview that former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod
conducted with his old boss, who claimed the vision of a
united America he stressed in his famous 2004
Democratic National Convention keynote speech is still
powerful enough that it
might have carried the day.
'You know, I am confident in this vision because I'm
confident that if I – if I had run again and articulated it, I
think I could've mobilized a majority of the American
people to rally behind it.'
'I know that in conversations that I've had with people
around the country, even some people who disagreed
with me, they would say, "The vision, the direction that
you point towards is the right one",' he said.
Firing back however, the US President elect, Donald
Trump in a Twitter post rebuffed any suggestion that he
would not have been able to take on Barack Obama had
the current president run again.
'President Obama said that he thinks he would have won
against me,' the president-elect tweeted. 'He should say
that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare,
etc.'Disappearing jobs, the shortcomings of the Obama
care medical insurance overhaul law and the rise of the
ISIS terror army were major campaign themes Trump
leveraged to draw lines of distinction between himself
and the Democrats.
Mr Trump also took aim at the United Nations who he
chided as “sad,” just days after the UN Security Council
adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli
settlements despite pressure by the US president-elect
for a veto by Washington.
Trump said:
“The United Nations has such great potential but right
now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and
have a good time. So sad!”
Meanwhile, Obama also said in the CNN interview
published Monday that he might not stay on the sidelines
and let his successor Trump have the spotlight all to
himself, if Trump's presidency raises 'foundational issues
about our democracy.'
He seemed to be firing a warning shot that while he has
no immediate plans to be vocal as a former president,
that might change if he thinks the Trump administration
threatens his own values.
