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Americans Burst into Laughter as Trump Calls Obama an ‘Incompetent President, ‘You Suggested We Drink Bleach!’

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Donald Trump responded Sunday to comments by his predecessor Barack Obama criticizing the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.

During his commencement address to students on Saturday, Obama criticized the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic and basically said Trump is acting like a little kid and has screwed up the county.

One reporter asked Trump this afternoon, “Former president Obama seems to suggest that you aren’t even pretending to be in charge. What’s your response?”

The president, after not initially hearing the question, ripped his successor:

“Look, he was an incompetent president. That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent.”

Obama said Saturday during a virtual commencement speech for historically black colleges and universities, that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a lack of leadership in the U.S.

“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama said, without naming specific officials.

“A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge,” he added.

Democrats have widely criticized the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic.

Obama has rarely criticized the Trump administration directly since leaving office in 2017 but earlier this month CNN reported that Obama called the Trump administration’s response to the crisis an “absolute chaotic disaster” during a private call with his former aides.

Americans are sickened:

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