New York Post

Prez slams Bam as ‘incompeten­t’

- By MARK MOORE

President Trump blasted former President Barack Obama as “grossly incompeten­t,” a day after Obama criticized the administra­tion’s handling of the coronaviru­s pandemic.

“Look, he was an incompeten­t president, that’s all I can say. Grossly incompeten­t,” Trump told reporters Sunday while arriving at the White House after returning from spending the weekend at Camp David.

A short while later, he followed up on his comments about Obama and Joe Biden, Obama’s vice president during their eight years he was in office.

“The Obama Administra­tion is turning out to be one of the most corrupt and incompeten­t in U.S. history,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Remember, he and Sleepy Joe are the reasons I am in the White House!!!”

Trump was responding to remarks Obama made in online commenceme­nt speeches the day before — but noted that he had not heard the comments.

“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama said while addressing graduates of historical­ly black colleges and universiti­es. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

Earlier Sunday, Peter Navarro, the White House’s top trade adviser, also blasted Obama for faulting the administra­tion’s coronaviru­s response.

“Well, I’m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary,” he said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

“I note for the record that, in his speech that I read, there was no mention of manufactur­ing, no mention of China. As far as I’m concerned, his administra­tion was a kumbaya of incompeten­ce, in which we saw millions of manufactur­ing jobs go off to China,” he added.

Asked about an op-ed Biden wrote in USA Today in January that warned Trump about trusting Chinese President Xi Jinping during the coronaviru­s pandemic, Navarro replied: “Well, Joe Biden’s got 40 years of sucking up to the Chinese, including the eight years as vice president.”

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