Former President Barack Obama brutally took down former President Donald Trump during his first solo outing on the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaking at the University of Pittsburgh, Obama hinted that he believed Trump, 78, wore adult diapers.
Obama, 63, recalled that he couldn’t believe how expensive diapers were when he became a father.
‘Do you think Donald Trump has ever changed a diaper?’ he reflected.
‘Yours!’ shouted one audience member.
“I almost said that, but I decided I shouldn’t say it,” Obama responded.
He also went after Trump for selling products during his presidential run.
Former President Barack Obama brutally took down former President Donald Trump during his first solo outing on the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Obama criticized Trump for his “all-caps tweets” and his “delusions and rantings about crazy conspiracy theories.”
‘You have two-hour speeches, word salad, it’s like Fidel Castro, over and over again; constant attempts to sell you things,” the Democrat continued.
‘Who does that?’ he reflected. “He sells you gold sneakers and a 100,000 watch and, most recently, a Trump Bible.”
“He wants you to buy the word of God, Donald Trump edition, his name next to Matthew and Luke,” Obama said. “If you saw him on Saturday Night Live, you’d say no, that’s going too far… It’s crazy.”
Obama began his 45-minute speech by saying he understood why people were frustrated in the current political climate.
Polls from swing states show the 2024 race will be extremely close.
“Let’s face it, we’ve been through a lot these past few years,” he admitted.
He mentioned the pandemic and the country’s general economic problems, which are especially felt by “workers.”
“So I understand why people are looking to change things,” he said. “I’m the hopeful, moody guy.”
“I can’t understand why anyone would think that Donald Trump will change things in a way that is good for Pennsylvania,” he continued. “Because there is absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anyone but himself.”
He later made a similar comment, pointing to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
‘If Donald Trump doesn’t care that a mob might attack his own vice president, do you think he cares about you?’ the former president asked.
Throughout his speech, Obama asked the audience if Trump did everyday things.
He commented on how the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could take apart a truck.
‘Has Donald Trump ever changed a tire in his life?’ the former president said, laughing. “I’m just trying to figure it out.”
The diaper comment was made in a similar way.
Obama also tried to shore up Harris in areas where polls show her weak, including the economy and immigration.
The former Democratic president highlighted how Trump gets credit for a good economy during his time in office.
“Yeah, it was pretty good, because it was my economy,” Obama boasted. “It wasn’t something he did.”
“I spent eight years cleaning up the mess the Republicans left me,” Obama added.
Obama took office in 2009 on the heels of a financial crisis due to predatory home lending to low-income borrowers.
Trump has made immigration his top issue in 2024, as he did when he first ran for the White House eight years ago.
‘When I hear Donald Trump speak, I have a question. As I remember, Donald Trump turned four years old. And if you round up and deport millions of desperate people and build the beautiful wall – and it didn’t matter if some of those people you rounded up were women and children – if that’s the answer to everything, well, why didn’t you solve the problem?
Obama’s opening remarks included several Pennsylvania Democrats, including the state’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro, a finalist to be Harris’ running mate.
“I have a message for Donald Trump: stop talking shit about America,” Shapiro enthused. “He’s not fit to lead,” he sneered, in front of Harris, “someone who gives a damn.”
Polls leading up to Obama’s appearance in Pittsburgh revealed that he is a more popular figure than Harris in Pennsylvania.
The former president is also more popular than Trump.
The Emerson College poll conducted with The Hill found that 55 percent of Pennsylvania residents view Obama positively compared to 48 percent for Harris and 50 percent for Trump.
Obama also received higher ratings than the two presidential hopefuls in the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan, meaning he could be a useful voice in all battlegrounds.
But Pennsylvania, dubbed the swing state, will likely be the key to either Harris or Trump’s victory on Nov. 5, as the path to 270 electoral votes becomes highly unlikely if a candidate loses it.
University of Pittsburgh students who attended the event told DailyMail.com that the 63-year-old former president was still fashionable.
‘Absolutely. 1,000 percent. I just think it’s very influential and very inspiring. The first black president means a lot to me specifically,” said Ava Nicholas, a 19-year-old Pitt sophomore.
He reiterated that Obama could “1,000 percent” inspire young people to vote for Harris.
“It’s how much influence he still has, even being out of the presidency,” Nicholas continued.
Pitt sophomore Jade Davis, 20, spoke of the “huge impact” Obama had on her and her peers as the first black president and first biracial president “even if some of us weren’t born yet or We were very young,” he said. he commented. ‘
“I feel like even though I was small, that’s something I won’t be able to forget,” Davis said.
She responded affirmatively when asked if Obama was considered “cool.”
“Yes, and I feel like he’s a good person, that’s what sets him apart from other politicians,” Davis said. ‘It’s very nice. Others may be a bit rigid or you can’t get to know them on a personal level, but I feel like he’s very open.’
“He even has a book about his life,” he added.
However, in a sign that Harris was unable to get the margins she needs in Pennsylvania because of the war in Gaza, DailyMail.com’s young people also knew of their peers who were refusing to vote on the Biden administration’s support for Israel.
“I know many people who choose not to vote for Kamala Harris at all due to, for example, the complicity of the Biden administration,” Nicholas acknowledged, saying he believed this was “dangerous.”
“I feel like any vote that’s not for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz right now is a vote for Donald Trump,” Nicholas said.
Nicholas said he believed potential non-voters could shift to Harris’ column.
“I think it’s definitely a mobile position,” Nicholas said.
Davis said it might help “if Kamala took a stronger stance on this, but right now she might not.”
Harris has sought to divide differences in Gaza, saying she continues to support Israel’s right to defend itself but condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians.
Walz’s selection was seen as a move to sweeten her candidacy among the pro-Palestinian left, but groups like Uncommitted, which started in the swing state of Michigan, have so far refused to endorse her.
