Trump and Harris pursue each other's economic plans at swing state rallies

Obama doesn't hold back in Georgiapublished at 12:51am British Summer Time on October 25th

00:51 BST October 25th

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from Georgia

image source, Reuters

We've seen a far harsher version of Barack Obama in 2024, and this rally is no exception.

Obama took office with a message of unity, maintaining a moderate and cerebral tone as America's first black president throughout his historic two terms in office. He was so controlled that the famous comedy duo Key and Peele created a skit about “Obama’s Anger Translator.”, external — a firebrand speaker who expressed the outrage that Obama himself was unable to express publicly.

Now Obama is acting as a kind of anger translator for Harris, making harsh attacks on Trump on behalf of his candidate. He tells the crowd in Georgia that Trump “hasn't stopped whining about his problems.”

“When he's not complaining, when he's not sending crazy tweets, he's trying to sell you stuff,” Obama says, pointing to Trump's branded sneakers and Bibles.

He calls Trump's long speeches “word salad.” It's been a pattern since he first returned to the national stage this summer.

At the DNC, he questioned the size of Trump's crowd and made a hand gesture that suggested he wasn't just talking about attending the rally.

And then, at his first official rally in Pennsylvania, he asked the crowd if they thought Trump had ever changed diapers and criticized the former president's character.

This week he went viral in Michigan for reciting the lyrics to Eminem's “Lose Yourself,” which goes: “He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs…”