Obama Throws Temper Tantrum Over Trump

• President Obama recently went off on the subject of Trump being a populist.
• While at a North America Leader's Summit he ranted on and on to the Canadian Prime Minister and the President of Mexico about it.
• He went on to say that HE was the true populist, and how HIS campaign was all about the people, not Trump.

President Barack Obama has added a new quarrel, to the long list,  between himself and GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Apparently, Obama isn't very excited about the fact that people are saying that Trump is leading a populist revolution.

“Maybe somebody can pull up in the dictionary quickly the phrase ‘populism’ but I’m not prepared to concede the notion that some of the rhetoric that’s been popping up is populist,” Obama said.

Trump's rise to the political spectrum seemed to come from nowhere, yet, whether President Obama wants to admit it or not, Trump has recently become the voice for the people.

It isn't what Obama said that is making people notice, it's where he said it. The President was at a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito for the North America Leader's Summit when the President made the remarks about Trump.

Obama went on to complain about HIS 2008 campaign and how HIS entire presidency is based on populism. He continued to say that HE cares more about the people about the working class, the poor, people.

“I suppose that makes ME a populist,” HE said confidently.

It seems to me there was a lot of concern about himself, and not so much concern about the people. Is that was populism is?

I don't think so.

He then went on to bash Trump, in a way that only politicians can.

“They don’t suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes,” Obama said. “That’s not the measure of populism. That’s nativism or xenophobia. Or worse. Or it’s just cynicism.”

He did, however, say that Bernie Sanders was a populist. That's a little ironic, isn't it? The guy who poses no threat to his policies to his handle on the government of America can be a populist. Yet, the one guy who would be a threat to his current political campaign can't be?

It is an improvement, though. Obama managed to handle the whole situation without crying, so at least there is some progress.