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."

0 Comments