Outgoing President, Barrack Obama, who had earlier said he
was going to take some quiet time off and even do some
writing after he steps down, has now issued a warning to
Trump, letting him know that he will not be silent if he notices
Trump's policies and actions as president goes against
certain core values and infringes on human rights.
Obama made this known during his final press conference on
Friday. Some of the issues he brought up which could cause
him to step out of the sidelines include; systemic
discrimination, effort to silence dissent or the press and
efforts to roll back voting rights. He also spoke on Trump's
promise to deport illegal immigrants and warned him about
'rounding up' children for deportation.
"And for me, at least, I would put in that category efforts to
round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical
purposes are American kids, and send them someplace else,
when they love this country, they are our kids' friends and
their classmates and are now entering into community
colleges or in some cases serving in our military ..."
"The notion that we would just arbitrarily, or because of
politics, punish those kids, when they didn't do anything
wrong themselves, I think would be something that would
merit me speaking out." Obama said.
As president, Obama had actions in place to protect these
immigrants but Trump has threatened to undo those actions
when he becomes president.
Obama also touched on the issue of Trump's continuous
bashing of the press, CNN especially, and the threat from his
press team to kick reporters out of the white house, saying
that the press is what keeps them honest and accountable.
"Having you in this building has made this place work better,
it keeps us honest ... it makes us work harder,' he said."
Obama concluded by stating the possibilities that could result
from being accepting of people and keeping opportunities
open to everybody.
"If in fact we continue to keep opportunity open to everybody,
then, yeah, we're going to have a woman president, we're
going to have a Latino president, we're going to have a
Jewish president, a Hindu president,' Obama said. 'You know,
who knows who we're going to have?"
"I suspect we'll have a whole bunch of mixed-up presidents at
some point, that nobody really knows what to call them. And
that's fine."
