Obama was 'grossly incompetent president': Trump
18 May, 2020
US president Donald Trump on Sunday called his predecessor Barak Obama a grossly incompetent president'.
Trump's reaction came after Obama on Saturday criticised the US authorities' response to the coronavirus outbreak.
"He (Obama) was an incompetent president. That's all I could say. Grossly incompetent," Trump told reporters at the White House on his arrival from Camp David.
Trump was giving an answer to a question on the virtual commencement address by Obama a day earlier.
In his address to school graduates, Obama had said that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the American leadership.
"A lot more than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so lots of the folks in charge really know what they're doing," Obama said without naming officials.
"A lot of them aren't even pretending to maintain charge," he added.
There is no immediate response from any office of the former president on the remarks made by Trump.
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