Obama Criticizes Americans For Being Patriotic – On July 4th Weekend

Fact checked
While Americans spent the July 4th weekend celebrating the most exceptional country in the world, Obama was criticizing us for being "too patriotic".

While most Americans spent the July 4th weekend with family and friends, celebrating the most exceptional country in the history of the world, Barack Obama was relaxing in the Muslim country he was schooled in, criticizing Americans for being “too patriotic”.

In a series of public appearances in Indonesia, the country he was raised in from age 6 to 10, Obama praised the direction of the hardline Islamic state, and criticized America, patriotism, love of country, and his successor, President Trump.

The Guardian reports:

The former US president said some countries had adopted “an aggressive kind of nationalism” and “increased resentment of minority groups”, in a speech in Indonesia on Saturday that could be seen as a commentary on the US as well as Indonesia.

“It’s been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. At an inflection point,” Obama said, telling a Jakarta crowd stories of how much the capital had improved since he lived there as a child.

But he said that increased prosperity had been accompanied by new global problems, adding that as the world confronts issues ranging from inequality to terrorism, some countries – both developed and less developed – had adopted a more aggressive and isolationist stance.

“If we don’t stand up for tolerance and moderation and respect for others, if we begin to doubt ourselves and all that we have accomplished, then much of the progress that we have made will not continue,” he said.

“What we will see is more and more people arguing against democracy, we will see more and more people who are looking to restrict freedom of the press, and we’ll see more intolerance, more tribal divisions, more ethnic divisions, and religious divisions and more violence,” Obama asserted.

What is wrong with this guy? We’ve been kicking ass, killing commies, making babies, building cities, exploring space, going to the moon, and putting the “civil” in civilization since 1776. And despite Obama’s attempts to stop us, we won’t be slowing down any time soon.

But Obama’s shameful July 4th weekend didn’t stop there. While former presidents rarely criticize their successors in public, Obama took the opportunity to do so while speaking to international media.

Via Bloomberg:

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has pointed to the importance of the Paris climate accord while criticizing Donald Trump for pulling the world’s biggest economy out of the pact.

Trump said last month he would withdraw from the pact and seek to negotiate a better deal, in a move that attracted widespread criticism from counterparts in Europe and elsewhere. The decision by Trump to walk away from the 2015 agreement was also criticized by business leaders, with some describing it as a setback for the environment.

“In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change,” Obama said Saturday in a speech at the opening of the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta. He said it was “an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership will still give our children a fighting chance.”

“The challenges of our times, whether it’s economic inequality, changing climate, terrorism, mass migration; these are really challenges and we’re going to have to confront them together,” he said.

What was President Trump doing on the July 4th weekend? His behavior could not have been more different to Obama’s shameful Indonesian jaunt.

On the very same day as Obama was criticizing America and American patriots on the other side of the world, President Trump was toasting American success and saluting veterans during the “Celebrate Freedom Rally” in Washington, D.C.

Fox News reports:

“America is a land rich with heroes,” said Trump at the event, which included wounded warriors who are patients at the Walter Reed Medical Center.

During his speech, the president personally saluted World War II veteran Harry Miller for his lifelong service and wounded warrior Luis Avila. Miller enlisted in the reserves at 15, even though he was not old enough to serve. He fought in Europe and in The Battle of the Bulge. Avila, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was on a fifth deployment when he was wounded, losing his leg, during an intelligence reconnaissance mission.

“We all bleed the same red blood,” said Trump, promising an adoring crowd that America would “win again.”

“Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our Creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of Washington and returning that power back where it belongs — to the people,” Trump said.

“Our religious liberty is enshrined in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The American founders invoked our creator four times in the Declaration of Independence,” the president said. “Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer. Inscribed on our currency are the words: ‘In God We Trust.’”

Watch the powerful speech here:




Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
Baxter Dmitry

4 Comments

  1. This guy is a total fukwit… he should have been assassinated when he took office..stupid fucking americans…lets have a nigger president see what its like we never had a nigger president before…cmon everybody its politically correct… lets give it a go how bad could it be…yeah um,m right,,, how bad could it be?…like um 20 trillion dollars bad??? maybe?

  2. Perfect speech. The comments and reasoning of this writer show why many Americans I met are ashamed of their country

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.