At the Democratic National Convention, the joke’s on Donald Trump.
The Obamas officiated a new Democratic motto Tuesday evening during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago: “When they go low, we hit back. Hard.”
Former First Lady Michelle Obama, her husband Barack, and dozens of DNC speakers took her 2016 aphorism — “When they go low, we go high” — and tweaked it for meaner, leaner times.
In his keynote speech, former President Obama called former President Trump a “78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.”
He listed off the Republican candidate’s “constant stream of gripes and grievances” that have only grown worse now that he’s “afraid of losing to Kamala.”
“There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes.” said Obama, who paused and moved his hands close together, connoting something small in measure.
The crowd erupted in laughter. MAGA clutched its pearls. Political pundits and satirists pounced with memes and posts such as “Stormy Knows.”
The party that chose decency and occasional piousness over pettiness in its 2016 and 2020 fight against Trump has abruptly changed course, referring to themselves now as joyful warriors who are ready and willing to fight fire with fire. The Obamas were Day 2‘s blowtorch of choice.
Tuesday the traditionally reserved Barack Obama threw more shade at Trump in just one speech than he has over the course of a decade. “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos.
