Obama: "[Trump] has not shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself & his friends or treating the presidency like a reality show he can use to get attention..the only people truly better off than they were 4 years ago are billionaires who got his tax cuts"
Obama on Trump: "He's got a secret Chinese bank account. How's that possible? Listen, can you imagine if had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for reelection? You think Fox News might've been a little concerned? They would've called me Beijing Barry."
Obama: "I get that this POTUS wants full credit for the economy that he inherited, and 0 blame for the pandemic he ignored. But the job doesn't work that way. Tweeting at the TV doesn't fix things. Making stuff up doesn't make people's lives better. You've got to have a plan."
Obama: "Korea identified its first case at the same time the US did. Their per capita death toll is just 1.3% of what ours is. In Canada, it's just 39%... Other countries are still struggling with the pandemic but they're not doing as bad as we are."
Obama: "The economic damage [Trump] inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he'll be the first president since Herbert Hoover to actually lose jobs."
Obama: "Republicans love to say right before an election that they'll protect preexisting conditions...they keep on promising, we're gonna have a great replacement [for the ACA]. It's been coming in 2 weeks for the last 10 years...they've had 10 years to do it! There is no plan"
Obama: "You'll be able to go about your lives knowing that POTUS is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret cabals running the world or that Navy SEALs didn't actually kill bin Laden. Think about that. The president retweeted that. Imagine. What? What?"
Obama: "There are consequences to [Trump's] actions. They embolden other people to be cruel & divisive & racist & it frays the fabric of our society. And it affects how our children seen things...it affects how the world looks at America. That behavior matters. Character matters"
You can hear the exasperation in Obama's voice that the country is even in this situation.

"The person who runs Medicaid right now is doing their best to kick people off Medicaid ... come on."
Obama: "Our democracy is not gonna work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie every day and just make things up. And we just become numb to it, we just become immune to it."
Obama: "Believe me, I've got first-hand experience with the way Republicans in Congress abuse the rules to make it easy for special interests to stop progress. But we can make things better. And we sure shouldn't be making things worse."
Obama: "The fact that we don't get 100 percent of what we want right away is not a good reason to vote. It means we gotta vote, and then get some change, and then vote some more, and then get some more change, and then keep on voting until we get it right."
Obama winds down his speech with this: "America is a good and decent place, but we've just seen so much noise and nonsense that sometimes it's hard for us to remember. Philadelphia, I am asking you to remember what this country can be."
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