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This is an archive article published on January 13, 2016
Trump on the Obama’s State of the Union address: ‘Boring, rambling, non-substantive’
In a series of tweets, Trump took on Obama and described his speech as 'very hard to watch'.
State of the Union address: Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., listen as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Republican presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump on Wednesday dubbed the State of the Union address by US President Barack Obama as ‘boring, rambling and non-substantive’. This was Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address as president.
In a series of tweets, Trump took on Obama and described his speech as ‘very hard to watch’.
The #SOTU speech is really boring, slow, lethargic – very hard to watch!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2016
The State Of The Union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-substantive I have heard in a long time. New leadership fast!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2016
READ: Full text: Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address
In a veiled attack on Donald Trump, Obama said in his speech, “When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals. And it betrays who we are as a country.”
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