Former President Barack Obama on Saturday advised 2020 graduates to give up on the adults currently in charge and chart a new way forward for …
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday advised 2020 graduates to give up on the adults currently in charge and chart a new way forward for the world.
“The old ways of doing things just don’t work,” Obama said in his online commencement speech to 2020 high school graduates who could not attend ceremonies due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The former president did not specifically criticize President Donald Trump but had a lot of criticism for adults and current people in power.
“All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing, turns out they don’t have all the answers, a lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions,” he said.
He added that adults with “fancy titles and important jobs” sometimes behaved like “little kids.
