Trump not up to the job: Michelle
FORMER First Lady Michelle Obama has torn into President Donald Trump, saying he is “not up to this job” and is “clearly in over his head”.
In a fiery keynote speech that capped the first night of the Democratic Party’s virtual national convention, Mrs Obama said Mr Trump had no empathy and had “emboldened torch-bearing white supremacists”.
“When we open our hearts we know what’s going on in this country is just not right,” she said. “This is not who we want to be.”
In the most strident criticism she has offered of her husband’s successor, she said: “Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country.
“He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head.
“He cannot meet this moment, he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us.”
She warned only
Biden administration
“end this chaos”.
“If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can and they will if we don’t make a change in this election,” she said.
“If we have any hope of a Joe could ending this chaos, we have got to vote like our lives depend on it. We have to vote for Joe Biden in numbers that cannot be ignored.”
She also criticised Mr Trump’s “lack of empathy”.
“I am one of a handful of people living today who have seen first-hand the immense weight and awesome power of the presidency,” she said.
“The job is hard. It requires clear-headed judgment, a mastery of complex and competing issues, a devotion to facts and history, a moral compass and an ability to listen.
“You simply cannot fake your way through this job.
“Whenever we look to this
White House for some leadership or consolation or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy.”
The convention shifted to be wholly online due to COVID concerns.
Mr Trump hit the campaign trail in Oskosh, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, and painted Mr Biden as a “puppet” controlled by the Democrats’ left wing.
“Joe Biden is just a Trojan horse for socialism … the puppet of extremists trying to erase our borders, eliminate our police, indoctrinate our children, vilify our heroes,” he said.