Donald Trump isn’t taking President Obama’s Tuesday criticism of his campaign too well, responding late Wednesday with a critique of his own.
“If I would’ve run four years ago, he wouldn’t be president right now,” Trump told MSNBC’s town hall moderators Mike Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough at a South Carolina event.
Trump’s comments came just 24 hours after the president declared the Manhattan real estate mogul unfit for the presidency, claiming Trump’s promotion and reality TV show experience are irrelevant as qualifications for such a “serious job.”
The GOP front-runner bashed Obama’s seven years in the Oval Office, calling him “one of the worst presidents in the history of this country.” Trump attacked the president’s military record, which he called a “disaster” for how it’s failed to beat the Islamic State. He doubled down against Obamacare, citing increased health insurance rates for many Americans as part of the problem with the law.
The self-funded billionaire also called out the president for not doing enough to help African-Americans since he took office in 2009. Trump referred to riots in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson as evidence of Obama’s failure to unite people and improve the country’s race relations.
