After what was an especially acrimonious presidential election campaign, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that when the winner turned out not to be the incumbent’s choice, that the transition of power would be anything but smooth. And it isn’t. There have been some attempts to make things appear more cordial than they are, but without much success.
It’s one thing to resent your successor. It’s quite another to attempt to sabotage him. Unfortunately, with Obama, we seem to have both. Here are seven problems Mr. Obama has created as welcome gifts for Donald Trump:
Betraying Israel at the United Nations: Obama’s refusal to block a United Nations vote against Israel, his administration’s shadowy machinations to bring that ugly motion to the floor, and Secretary of State John Kerry’s long-winded broadside against Israel will leave President Trump with a massive political crisis in the Middle East, and quite possibly a security crisis, if terror groups and their “political wings” are emboldened by the rebuke of Israel.
That’s an interesting one in that it has earned the condemnation not only from Republicans as expected, but also from the Democrats as well. That would suggest that in his zeal to make life miserable for Donald Trump, Obama doesn’t care who he upsets, even members of his own party.
A new Cold War with Russia: After eight years of relentlessly mocking anyone who said Russia was a major geopolitical threat to the United States (most famously including his 2012 presidential opponent, Mitt Romney) Barack Obama suddenly realized: “You know what? Russia is a major threat!”
That one is in progress with Mr. Obama’s puerile act of booting 35 Russian diplomats out of the US and saying mean things to Mr. Putin. Thus far, Mr. Putin has just made Obama look impotent, and has indicated he’s waiting to do business with Trump.
Ban on oil drilling: An overt act of sabotage directed at the American economy itself, leaving an especially heavy bootprint on Alaska. Smug administration flacks spent the past couple of weeks assuring media talking heads that Obama’s unprecedented abuse of an obscure law was impossible for his successor to reverse. It’s like they stayed up all night, looking for executive actions that can’t be undone by the new President four weeks later. (Amusingly, Obama dropped this bomb on our energy sector just a few weeks after publicly advising Trump not to abuse executive orders.)
National-monument land grab: The other theoretically irreversible presidential edict discovered by Obama’s munchkins is the ability to designate national monuments. Another 1.65 million acres in Utah and Nevada was yanked off the market in the last week of December, bring Obama’s Antiquities Act acreage up to an unprecedented 553 million acres.
Eliminating the national immigration registry: Just in case Trump got any ideas about using it as the basis for the “enhanced vetting” he has promised for immigrants from terrorist-infested regions, the Obama administration killed a long-dormant program called NSEERS that once committed the unforgivable politically-incorrect sin of tracking military-age males from violently unstable Muslim-majority countries.
The great Guantanamo jailbreak: After paying little more than lip service to his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for much of his presidency, Obama went into overdrive in his last years, transferring over 150 detainees. A shocking number of them ended up back on the battlefield.
Depicting Trump’s election as a disaster: Let’s not forget Obama’s acts of rhetorical sabotage, such as describing Trump’s presidential campaign as a crime against American class and racial harmony, or his wife wailing that all hope was lost for America’s children. Trump himself has taken note of the “many inflammatory President Obama statements and roadblocks.”
If Obama wants to rant and rave about Trump’s election being a “disaster,” well that might just backfire and make him look like more of a sore loser than he already does. And it will get tiresome. Obama despises Donald Trump. Well all get that. And who cares?
This transition has brought out a vindictive side to Mr. Obama to a much greater degree than seen before. You have to wonder if he realizes that he might just be hurting the American people a bit in his determination to sabotage his successor. But if so, he probably just doesn’t care.
Source: Breitbart
He can try but Trump is lightyears ahead of this muslim. He will stop anything dumbama throws at him and we are getting very tired of this POS disrupting what is supposed to be a smooth transition. He will get what he deserves when Trump has had enough of his c**p.
Everything that Obama has done, can be undone…and yes it is that simple….it will be undone…..even the appointments of his staff to lifelong positions can be undone. We are not compelled to honor these actions….they overstep the boundaries and we reject them.
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