Obama ridicules Trump with fresh wave of stinging insults at key swing state rally

Barack Obama took purpose astatine Donald Trump's competence and labeled his persona arsenic 'all-pretend-tough-guy' during an Arizona rally.

The erstwhile president mocked Trump's caller municipality hallway quality successful Pennsylvania wherever helium stopped taking questions and danced connected signifier for 30 minutes aft 2 radical who took sick had to beryllium attended to.

'You would beryllium disquieted if your grandpa was acting similar this,' Obama quipped to the assemblage of 7,000 successful Tucson connected Friday.

He besides painted the statesmanlike hopeful arsenic a grifter and a hypocrite. 

'When he's not complaining, he's trying to merchantability you stuff,' Obama said. 'This is my favorite: He's got the Trump Bible — wants you to bargain the connection of God, Donald Trump edition.'

The Democratic Party icon maintained that the Bibles were printed successful China, contempt Trump's statements astir his steadfast stance against Beijing. 

'So, Mr. Tough Guy connected China, but erstwhile helium tin marque a fewer bucks hawking his Trump variation Bibles,' Obama said. 'You can't marque this worldly up.'

The comments people a much idiosyncratic onslaught benignant arsenic Kamala Harris appears to beryllium losing crushed successful cardinal battleground authorities polling, a hardline determination that was welcomed by immoderate Democrat supporters, the Washington Post reports.

Trump has a constrictive pb implicit Harris successful Arizona, but helium mislaid the authorities successful 2016 successful portion owed to his arguable remarks astir the state's erstwhile Senator John McCain. 

President Joe Biden won Arizona by a slim borderline 4 years agone and determination are concerns that Harris is not making capable gains among immoderate cardinal demographics. 

Obama went connected to entreaty straight to the young men Kamala Harris needs to triumph over.

'I person to say, I've noticed this, particularly with immoderate men who deliberation Trump's behavior, the bullying and the putting radical down, acting all-pretend-tough guy, that someway that's a motion of strength,' Obama said. 

'I americium present to archer you that is not what spot is. Never has been.' 

He drew a examination to his erstwhile adversary, the precocious Senator McCain, arsenic different mode to instrumentality a swipe astatine Trump.

'Being present successful Tucson, I'm reasoning astir my friend, John McCain,' Obama said. 

'I don't privation to over-romanticize our relationship. But you cognize what? He understood that immoderate values transcend party.

'He believed successful honorable statement and proceeding the views of different people. He didn't demonize his governmental opponents.'

He praise however McCain, who helium faced disconnected against successful the 2008 election, had erstwhile defended him against a pistillate astatine a townhall successful Lakeville who said she didn't spot Obama arsenic helium was an 'Arab'. 

McCain responded by telling the assemblage that Obama was a decent antheral who helium conscionable disagreed with politically.

'One of the astir disturbing things astir this predetermination and Donald Trump's emergence successful authorities is however we look to person acceptable speech the values that radical similar a John McCain stood for,' Obama said.

'When Donald Trump lies oregon cheats oregon bullies oregon shows utter disregard for our Constitution erstwhile helium calls work members similar John McCain losers due to the fact that they died successful conflict oregon were captured … radical marque excuses for it, that it's good truthful agelong arsenic their broadside win.'

McCain served successful the Vietnam warfare and was a treble Purple Heart recipient who went connected to gain respective much subject accolades.

Following his decision to Obama, Trump branded McCain a 'loser'. 

'He's not a warfare hero, helium was a warfare leader due to the fact that helium was captured,' Trump told crowds portion campaigning successful Iowa.

Obama made notation to Trump by sanction astir 36 times, AZ Central reports.

He asked the crowds if they thought the Republican nominee has ever changed a diaper oregon a tyre successful an effort to represent him arsenic an out-of-touch elitist. 

'I recognize wherefore radical are looking to shingle things up. I get wherefore sometimes folks are frustrated with politics.

'I americium sometimes frustrated with politics, truthful I get it. What I cannot recognize is wherefore anyone would deliberation that Donald Trump volition shingle things up successful a mode that is bully for you.'