US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of
making “inflammatory” statements and complicating the impending
transfer of power — the latest salvo in an escalating war of words with
the current commander-in-chief.
The unorthodox personal and public criticism of a sitting president
comes less than a month before the 70-year-old Trump — who defeated
Obama’s preferred successor Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential
election — takes office.“Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks,” Trump wrote on Twitter.“Thought it was going to be a smooth transition – NOT!”The social media jab is the latest from the 70-year-old real estate
mogul aimed at Obama, in what has become a most unconventional
transition between the outgoing Democrat and the incoming Republican
leader.Obama said in an interview released earlier this week that he could
have been re-elected for a third term if he had been eligible and that
the nation still largely embraces his political vision.“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had
run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of
the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told the interviewer,
his former senior adviser David Axelrod. It was not immediately clear what exactly Trump was referring to in
the first tweet, but minutes later, he took Obama to task over his
policy on Israel.“We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain
and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the US, but…..” he
wrote.
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