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🇺🇸 Obama warns against 'strongman politics' in speech after Trump news conference
Obama warns against strongman politics in speech after Trump news conferenceCNN Wire
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.com/2018/07/17/obama-warns-against-strongman-politics-in-speech-after-trump-news-conference/amp/

Former US President Barack Obama addressed some 15,000 people in South Africa on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth, a day after his successor, Donald Trump, upbraided the US in a news conference with Vladimir Putin.
Speech text and great read at Link
EDIT: President Obama's full speech
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🇺🇸 Obama warns against 'strongman politics' in speech after Trump news conference (Original Post)
Wwcd
Jul 2018
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sheshe2
(92,883 posts)1. Marking to listen to later.
Thanks for the link and the beautiful picture.
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Kittycow
(2,396 posts)3. Thanks for the link!
I only caught about the last third or so of the live stream.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)4. Was that the 1st video I posted? This edited one above is his full speech
Apologies..
I first heard of this speech on CNN Money channel between stock market talk..
Even THEY showed a clip of the last part where he addresses "democracy's & strongarm politics."
They even mentioned that " Pres Obama didn't have to name Trump or Putin, to know who he was referring to".
Applause
This speech watched worldwide, just for a moment restored some dignity back to our America.
We miss our President Obama.
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