Kimmel: Obama Reads Trump's Mean Tweet, Achieves Mic-Drop Moment
When Barack Obama agreed to read a series of mean tweets on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, he probably didn’t expect one of them to be from presidential candidate Donald Trump.
After a series of putdowns equating POTUS to Nickelback, bad hair conditioner and the Sharknado franchise, the president read aloud a recent quip from Trump declaring that “President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!” Firing back, Obama remarked that “at least I will go down as a president” before dropping the mic cellphone.
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2016
Later, during a sit-down with Kimmel, Obama expressed concern about Trump’s behavior, where he articulated that “there is a certain responsibility and expectation in terms of how you behave and how you present yourself” as a presidential candidate.
“Look, we joke about Donald Trump, but I do think… there’s something qualitatively different about the way [he] has operated in the political sphere,” Obama said. “[W]hat we haven’t seen before, I think, is somebody questioning the integrity of elections and the will of the people… a politics based on putting down, in very explicit terms, Muslim Americans who are patriots, or describing women not in terms of their intellect and their character, but on a 1-10 score.”
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Watch excerpts from Obama’s Kimmel appearance above, then drop a comment and let us know if you agree or disagree with his feelings regarding Trump.
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