President Donald Trump attacked Barack Obama for golfing during the coronavirus pandemic in his latest Twitter rage. Trump has been lash...
President Donald Trump attacked Barack Obama for golfing during the coronavirus pandemic in his latest Twitter rage.
Trump has been lashing out online since coming under fire for golfing over the holiday weekend as the death toll for coronavirus approaches 100,000
The president slammed Obama for playing golf in April close to the same time Michelle Obama recorded a public service announcement for residents of Washington D.C., where the Obamas live, urging them to stay home.
'Didn't Obama, whose Administration has now been caught cold illegally spying on the Trump campaign, recently also get caught playing golf on a course in Virginia, despite his wife Michelle urging people to stay home, before and after his round, in a major public service message?,' Trump tweeted.
'A total double standard. The only thing the Dems have going for them is their very close relationship with the Fake News Lamestream Media!,' he added.
President Donald Trump attacked Barack Obama in his latest Twitter rage as he faced criticism for playing golf over Memorial Day weekend
President Trump slammed Barack Obama for playing golf in April close to the same time Michelle Obama recorded a PSA for residents of Washington D.C. to stay home; Obama was a frequent golfer as president as seen above playing Martha's Vineyard
Barack Obama joins Michelle Obama for her online reading series; Michelle Obama recorded a PSA during the coronavirus epidemic urging people to stay home
But Obama was seen golfing in Virginia - where he is a member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, which was open at the time - on a Sunday. Michelle Obama's PSA went out the following Monday.
'Remember, we urge you to stay home except if you need essential healthcare, essential food or supplies, or to go to your essential job,' Michelle Obama said in a phone message in late April to Washington D.C. residents. 'Thank you, and please stay home, D.C.'
Trump kept up a bullying spree that began this weekend when he retweeted a slew of insulting posts that mocked Joe Biden for wearing a face mask to a Memorial Day event, called Hillary Clinton a 'skank', slammed as Stacey Abrams overweight, and alleged Nancy Pelosi is a drunk.
On Tuesday the president launched a series of direct attacks on Biden and Obama, starting with a tweet criticizing Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for his role dealing with the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
It was the latest of several efforts to tag Biden with accountability for the lower death toll of the 2009 outbreak, when he was serving as Barack Obama's Number Two. Fact checkers have not turned up evidence he was put in charge of the response by President Obama, who regularly referenced top health officials on it, although Biden does state on his web site he had a 'leadership role.'
'Joe Biden's handling of the H1N1 Swine Flu was a complete and total disaster. Even polls on the matter were terrible!' Trump wrote Tuesday morning.
President Trump has been lashing out online since coming under fire for golfing over the holiday weekend as the death toll for coronavirus approaches 100,000
President Trump has criticized Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their response to the H1N1 swine flu when they were in the White House
The outbreak early in Obama's tenure led to an estimated 12,469 deaths from April 2009 through the following year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
It was not immediately clear what poll Trump might be referring to.
A poll average of two 2009 surveys found two-thirds of Americans were very or somewhat confident of the government's response to the outbreak.
Obama has said Biden 'helped me manage' the outbreak. There were stumbles in the response, and Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain, remarked long after the fact in 2019 that the outcomes could have been far worse. 'It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck,' Klain said at a health security event, Politico reported earlier this month.
There were difficulties and delays producing a vaccine, but the nation caught a break when a lower dose than was anticipated proved sufficient.
President Trump claimed polls of the Obama administration's handling were 'terrible'
Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask on Memorial Day
Donald Trump retweeted a post mocking Joe Biden for wearing a face mask at Memorial Day commemorations while the president refused to don one at a ceremony in Virginia
President Donald Trump swings a golf club during a round of golf on Sunday
President Trump returned to the golf course Memorial Day weekend for the first time since March 8
As of Tuesday, more than 99,000 Americans had died from the virus.
On Monday Trump touted 'great reviews' for his administration's handling of the coronavirus – even as he complained he gets 'no credit' for making governors look good with a crash program to get medical gear.
'Great reviews on our handling of Covid 19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus,' Trump wrote – return to a term he mostly abandoned as tensions with China rise over its plan to impose a strict new law on Hong Kong.
'Ventilators, Testing, Medical Supply Distribution, we made a lot of Governors look very good - And got no credit for so doing,' Trump groused.
'Most importantly, we helped a lot of great people!' He was referring to the effort to procure ventilators, masks and other gear as hospitals faced a crush of patients when COVID-19 hit.
Trump in March claimed the Obama administration's response to the swine flue was the 'worst on record' and is own response was the 'highest on record.'
The president also spent his Memorial Day weekend sharing a dozen controversial posts to his more than 80 million Twitter followers.
He shared one tweet that referred to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as 'HRC the Skank'.
As the Trump administration slammed Joe Biden as offensive for his controversial antiblack comments, the president retweeted a slew of insulting posts that called Hillary Clinton a skank, Stacey Abrams overweight, and Nancy Pelosi as a drunk all within a matter of 48 hours. Trump pictured golfing on Sunday at the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginis
Trump shared this tweet on Saturday that referred to Hillary Clinton as 'the Skank'
The president also retweeted this post that called former 2018 gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams overweight
In another post he retweeted two doctored photos of Speaker of the House Pelosi, one where she had a Trump 2020 face mask and another with duct tape edited over her mouth, that said: 'With duct tape, she won't be able to drink booze on the job as much'
The tweets were shared by Twitter page that shares a slew of anti-Democrat posts and called Biden, Abrams and Pelosi the 'Three Stooges'
He also retweeted a photo of former 2018 gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams that said: 'We just got a look at the official portrait for the self proclaimed Governor of Georgia. She fought a tough race, kissed a lot of babies and visited every buffet restaurant in the State. Joe will be a racist if he doesn’t pick her.'
In another post he retweeted two doctored photos of Speaker of the House Pelosi, one where she had a Trump 2020 face mask and another with duct tape edited over her mouth.
The tweet said: 'To protect PolyGrip during this pandemic, we have developed 2 options. With the DJT option, she will be able to tongue and adjust her dentures more easily. With duct tape, she won't be able to drink booze on the job as much.'
Another incendiary post included a tweet that touted hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for coronavirus with the president saying: 'Many physicians agree with you. Also, some very good studies!'
On Sunday Biden called out Trump for his excessive tweeting saying: 'The presidency is about a lot more than tweeting from your golf cart. It requires taking on the ultimate responsibility for the biggest decisions in the world. Donald Trump simply wasn’t prepared for that. I promise you I will be.'
The former Vice President slammed Trump's response to coronavirus on Sunday, saying that he is 'playing golf' while 'nearly 100,000 Americans have died'
President Trump defended his playing golf over the holiday weekend after coming under fire in a Joe Biden political campaign ad
Trump, who spent Saturday and Sunday playing golf, justified his time on the course as part of his exercise regimen.
'Sleepy Joe's representatives have just put out an ad saying that I went to play golf (exercise) today. They think I should stay in the White House at all times. What they didn't say is that it's the first time I've played golf in almost 3 months, that Biden was constantly vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals with other countries, & that Barack was always playing golf, doing much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii - Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the gruesome death of a great young man by ISIS!' he tweeted Sunday night.
Trump has decided to spend the Memorial Day weekend holiday at his private golf club in Virginia, but his tweet referred to a moment in 2014 when President Obama went golfing, immediately after speaking about the beheading of American journalist, James Foley.
Obama was vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when Islamic militants released the gruesome video of the killing.
Obama strongly condemned the killing but then minutes later, he was photographed golfing, which caused critics to accuse him of insensitivity. The former president later said he should have known better.
Former President Barack Obama is pictured delivering a statement from Martha's Vineyard in August 2014 after the beheading of American journalist James Foley
Trump attempted to justify his golfing during the pandemic to a time when in 2014, Obama was spotted golfing shortly after the beheading of journalist James Foley
Obama was spotted out on the golf course a short time after making his statement following the beheading by ISIS of an American journalist in 2014
Biden followed his tweet with a political attack ad against Trump along similar lines framing his response to the crisis as inadequate.
The 30-second ad shows video shows Trump playing golf at his Virginia club on Saturday and is cut with footage of front-line health workers pictured in hospitals, taking COVID-19 tests, and speaking to patients on gurneys.
Throughout the video a red bar graph can be seen increasing as the number of coronavirus-related deaths edges towards 100,000.
'The death toll is still rising. The President is playing golf,' the text reads.
'The presidency is about a lot more than tweeting from your golf cart. It requires taking on the ultimate responsibility for the biggest decisions in the world. Donald Trump simply wasn’t prepared for that. I promise you I will be,' Biden tweeted
Joe Biden's latest political ad took aim at the amount of time the president spends on the links
The ad cuts between footage of Trump playing golf and people getting tested and treated for Covid-19 by health care professionals
Trump was spotted leaving the White House on and Sunday wearing a white polo shirt and a white baseball cap.
He was seen driving his own golf cart on the 800-acre private golf club he owns about 20 minutes south of Washington D.C. A bevy of carts followed him, likely consisting of fellow players and his Secret Service agents.
This weekend's golf marked the first time the president hit the links since March 8, his last weekend in Mar-a-Lago before the coronavirus shuttered normal life.
President Donald Trump is seen playing golf Sunday at his Trump National Golf Course outside of Washington D.C.
President Donald Trump was seen shaking hands with a fellow golfer Saturday
The president, however, failed to practice social distancing when he was at his members-only club on Saturday.
Trump, who has repeatedly refused to wear a face mask despite CDC recommendations, was seen once again mask-less and flouting social distancing requirements to stay six feet from other people by shaking hands with a fellow mask-less golfer.
It was the longest duration he has gone without visiting one of his clubs since becoming president, according to NBC, which calculated he has visited his own properties on more than 400 days or around a third of his term.
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