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Former US President Barack Obama in a sharp attack slammed the COVID-19 pandemaic handling by US President Donald trump. He termed it as “an absolute chaotic disaster” for America.
Obama slammed Trump during a private call on Friday night with people who worked for him in the White House and across his administration, according to US media reports.
In a 30-minute conversation with members of the Obama Alumni Association, the former US president, a Democrat, said the poor response to the coronavirus outbreak served as a critical reminder for why strong government leadership is needed during a global crisis.
During the call, Obama said his Republican successor’s approach to government was partly to blame for the US response to coronavirus.
“It would have been bad even with the best of government,” Obama was quoted as saying in the call.
“It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset of ‘what’s in it for me’ and ‘to heck with everybody else’, when that mindset is operationalised in our government,” Obama, who was US president for two consecutive terms from 2009 to 2017, said.
The call was intended to encourage former Obama staffers to become more engaged in ex-vice president Joe Biden’s White House bid against Trump in the November presidential elections, CNN reported.
