Donald Trump ROASTS Barack Obama as WAR OF WORDS erupts

Donald Trump has ripped into former US President Barack Obama in a fiery spray delivered to reporters. Let me tell you in my opinion he's not smart at all because the way he ran the country only a stupid person would run the country like that. A war of words has recently blown up between Trump and Obama in relation to ongoing renovations to the White House. Speaking at a rally in Ohio Obama recently took a swipe at Donald Trump's renovation projects which led to a fierce reply from the current U.S. president Obama said Trump and I quote seems very focused on home renovations the former president ridiculed much of the works President Trump has undertaken to redevelop the White House Obama said there's gold everywhere what's up with the gold before he continued to declare Trump has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory so when you go through all this the tally of promises things have not worked out the way we might have expected although I must say I did expect it and and let's be honest does anybody really think this guy in the White House right now is spending all that time thinking about these issues I I mean I I don't know if you've noticed but he seems very focused on home renovations he should be on HGTV guys building a ballroom that's bigger than the White House it's paved over the rose garden put a helicopter pad on the south lawn and and there's gold everywhere what's up with the gold everything more gold he's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein open a cheesecake factory everywhere Donald Trump hit back at Obama's taunts as he delivered a fiery spray of his own the president said Obama was a quote stupid person and not a smart guy further response to Obama, who made fun of the Cheesecake Factory compared to the White House and your decoration? You know, I've taken care of the White House. I fixed it with the finest artisans in the world. We've re-skinned it. It was in horrible shape. A lot of the ornaments and the things that were originally built on the White House were missing or damaged or gone for a long time they were laying on the ground in some cases and it was in terrible shape the exterior plaster was broken cracked and the painting was terrible and i've reskinned the building beautifully with the highest most talented people anywhere in the world you're not going to find more talent and the white house looks beautiful and guys like obama they would pass the front door they'd see the broken masonry that see the broken uh the beautiful pilasters that were all broken for years they were broken and he wouldn't notice because he doesn't notice that he doesn't notice dirt and filth that hadn't been cleaned where the walls hadn't been cleaned for years he doesn't notice areas that haven't been painted so it's very easy for me to do i do it very very simply because it's my nature, you know, I'm a very clean person. And the White House was in terrible shape. The White House is now in the best shape it's been since 1792, when it was built. It's in beautiful shape. You take a look at it, it looks beautiful. And I'm proud to do it. I do it with five minutes a day, 10 minutes a day. I have the very talented people. They work there. Many of them are in Department of Interior. They work there. They've done a fantastic job. Trump continued to declare that Obama was a lousy president. And you have to remember, the White House, we have to explain that to Obama because he doesn't understand it, because he's not a smart guy. Let me tell you, in my opinion, he's not smart at all because the way he ran the country, only a stupid person would run the country like that. But we have to explain to Obama that the White House is a symbol of America and it has to be maintained properly. It has to be painted and the exterior plaster can't be falling off the walls. and the decorations and ornaments around the windows that are magnificent can't be on one side of the window and falling off on the other side. So we took molds of the one side, and we put it on the other side, and we did a beautiful job. Very little money spent. It's not about money. It's about seeing. Guys like Obama don't see it. You don't see dirt. He doesn't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments on a building. The White House to President Obama is a symbol of America. It has to be clean. The columns can't be broken. The bricks can't be falling off from under the plaster. And for you to say it's a cheesecake factory, that just shows why you're a lousy president, right? On Venezuela, Mr. President. News24 host James Morrow criticized Obama's comments regarding the White House. Mr. Morrow said Obama is the guy whose presidential library looks like some sort of Death Star or secret police headquarters from beyond the Iron Curtain. But Obama in this speech here, well, he also took this weird swipe at President Trump's White House. Well, this is the same guy whose presidential library, we'll show it to you on the screen here, looks like some sort of, you know, Death Star or secret police headquarters from behind the Iron Curtain. Who is this guy to talk about design or to attack the Cheesecake Factory, which is a chain restaurant that, of course, he would never deign to go into because he's too fancy, but that ordinary Americans love? You know, James, it's funny you bring this up. I actually was a law student at the University of Chicago where Barack Obama taught constitutional law for 10 years. And I actually lived about a stone's throw for a year from where this library is going up. And I can tell you that what was there prior to this monstrosity going up was a heck of a lot better than what it will look like after this. It is an utter eyesore to the entire Hyde Park, Chicago area. By the way, it was dramatically over budget, took way longer time. It was way more expensive. It was one of the worst projects in modern Chicago history, which frankly is saying a whole lot. But, you know, I want to also zoom out a little bit here because Barack Obama's man, I talk about a lot for many reasons. I want to underscore an important point. It is incredibly, incredibly rare to see someone like this, 10 years removed from the White House, out on the campaign trail just trying to rile up the crowd in the most partisan, demagogic fashion imaginable. There's a long history and tradition in American politics of presidents generally trying to appeal to the better of our angels and therefore not politicking in this sort of crass fashion. That's why Barack Obama became the first U.S. president in 100 years, literally, since Woodrow Wilson to not physically leave Washington, D.C. He stayed in Calorama, a very upscale neighborhood in D.C., where he was about a mile and a half, two miles from the Joe Biden White House. Go figure. I mean, I think that that was more than just symbolic proximity. And this is a man who just fundamentally cannot give up his zeal, his thirst for power. But, you know, at the risk of punching slightly below the belt, James, but I will say it anyway, you know, his wife, Michelle, has openly complained about their marriage not being in the best of places. Shouldn't he focus a little bit more on the home front and things like that and not just trying to belittle and sully the legacy of a man who should, again, be appealing to her better angels as most ex-presidents have done? I think that would be a good idea, frankly. Yeah, well, I mean, look, I played a little while ago in the program, grabs of Obama saying we should all put away the anger and then telling people to stay angry. So the man is a hypocrite, and I'm glad you mentioned him in the same breath as Woodrow Wilson, because people who watch me know precisely what I think of that guy.