‘Do not boo – vote’: Obama warns sequel ‘usually worse’ than first movie as he rounds on Trump
Barack Obama has warned the sequel is “usually worse” than the first movie as he and Michelle Obama tried to rally their party in the race against Donald Trump.
Speaking on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Mr Obama said the country does not need another four years of “bluster” and “chaos”.
“We have seen that movie before – and we all know that the sequel is usually worse,” he said.
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“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala,” he added.
“There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes… it just goes on and on and on.”
Criticising Mr Trump’s record while he was in office, the crowd booed loudly, to which Mr Obama said in an unscripted moment: “Do not boo – vote.”
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“We have a chance to elect someone who has spent her entire life trying to give people the same chances America gave her,” he had told the crowd, with Ms Harris confirmed as the party’s pick for November’s election.
In tribute to outgoing President Joe Biden, who beat Mr Trump in the last election, he said history will remember him for having “defended democracy at a moment of great danger”.
‘Hope is making a comeback’
Barack Obama embraced Michelle Obama after she introduced him. Pic: Reuters
Mr Obama was introduced by his wife, Michelle, who tops the party’s wish list as a future president.
Greeted with a long and loud ovation, Mrs Obama told the convention: “America, hope is making a comeback.”
She described Ms Harris as one of the “most qualified” people to ever seek the office.
Taking aim at Mr Trump, she said: “Who is going to tell him the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those black jobs?”
She was referring to Mr Trump’s unsubstantiated claim made earlier this summer that immigrants are taking “black jobs”.
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While Ms Harris was not at the convention to respond to the Obamas’ backing, she spoke at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, where she said the election will be a “tight race until the very end”.
“We have some hard work ahead of us, but we like hard work – hard work is good work,” she said.
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Meanwhile, Mr Trump repeated unsupported claims Ms Harris took a permissive approach to law enforcement at a campaign stop in Howell, Michigan.
“You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread,” he said. “You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped.”
He spoke one month after white supremacists rallied in the small town, where about a dozen chanted “Heil Hitler” and carried “White Lives Matter” signs.
Donald Trump speaking in Howell. Pic: AP
‘Basement dwellers’
Former Republicans who became disillusioned with Mr Trump’s leadership addressed the Democratic convention, including former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
She became a member of Mr Trump’s family, she said, and wasn’t just a supporter but a “true believer”.
Behind closed doors, however, she says he mocks his supporters – calling them “basement dwellers”.
She recalled a hospital visit where he “got mad that the cameras were not watching him”.
“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she added. “He used to tell me ‘it doesn’t matter what you say Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you’.”
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Ms Harris “tells the truth”, she said – a view shared by John F Kennedy’s grandson, who said she has the same “energy, vision and optimism for the future” as his grandfather.
Celebrities also turned out, with rapper Lil Jon launching into Turn Down for What to introduce delegates from Georgia, while actress Eva Longoria spoke for Texas.
Beyond the convention, dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters charged a line of police outside the Israeli consulate in Chicago.
After the larger gathering began to disperse, splintering off into smaller groups, other clashes with police led to more than a dozen arrests.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
A farmer who fell from a greenhouse roof during an anti-immigrant raid at a licensed cannabis facility in California this week has died of his injuries.
Jaime Alanis, 57, is the first person to die as a result of Donald Trump’s Immigration Compliance and Enforcement (ICE) raids.
His niece, Yesenia Duran, posted on the fundraising site GoFundMe to say her uncle was his family’s only provider and he had been sending his earnings back to his wife and daughter in Mexico.
The United Food Workers said Mr Alanis had worked on the farm for 10 years.
“These violent and cruel federal actions terrorise American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives and separate families,” the union said in a recent statement on X.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it executed criminal search warrants at Glass House Farms facilities on Thursday.
Mr Alanis called family to say he was hiding and possibly fleeing agents before he fell around 30ft (9m) from the roof and broke his neck, according to information from family, hospital and government sources.
Agents arrested 200 people suspected of being in the country illegally and identified at least 10 immigrant children on the sites, the DHS said in a statement.
Mr Alanis was not among them, the agency said.
“This man was not in and has not been in CBP (Customs and Border Protection) or ICE custody,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said.
“Although he was not being pursued by law enforcement, this individual climbed up to the roof of a greenhouse and fell 30ft. CBP immediately called a medivac to the scene to get him care as quickly as possible.”
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Four US citizens were arrested during the incident for allegedly “assaulting or resisting officers”, the DHS said, and authorities were offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a person suspected of firing a gun at federal agents.
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In a statement, Glass House, a licensed Cannabis grower, said immigration agents had valid warrants. It said workers were detained and it is helping provide them with legal representation.
“Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors,” it added.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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