10 days before the congressional midterm elections, Barack Obama launched a broad campaign to support the Democrats and sharply criticized Donald Trump’s policies, corruption and strategy toward Iran.
Before 10 days before the election that will determine control of Congress, former US President Barack Obama launched a fierce attack on the administration of current US President Donald Trump at campaign events in the cities of Cleveland and Detroit. This came after Trump had urged voters to view the elections as if he himself were a candidate; Obama, for his part, took the same step to rally Democratic supporters.
During his election campaign in Michigan in support of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the Senate, who is competing against Republican candidate Mike Rogers, Obama described the 3 November election as a “circuit breaker” to stop the mistakes of the Trump presidency and said: “We have to activate this circuit breaker so that we can hold this government accountable.”
In another part of his speech, the former US president mocked the Trump administration’s claims of victory over Iran and reiterated: “Iran’s threats to strike ships in the Strait of Hormuz have caused great concern among oil exporters.”
Obama also accused the Trump administration of focusing on trivial issues and sarcastically referred to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying that he cares only about soldiers’ shirtless appearance and testosterone levels. At the same time, he criticized the excessive cost of renovating the White House, calling it annoying, and said: “The White House has been made to look like a branch of the Cheesecake Factory.”
