President Obama said something that is both true and has to be counted as trolling Donald Trump: that he could have won a third term as president if he’d been allowed to run.
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I — if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told his former senior adviser, David Axelrod, on Monday’s “Axe Files” podcast. “I know that in conversations that I’ve had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one.”
Popular vote loser Trump predictably responded:
“President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me,” Trump tweeted Monday afternoon. “He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc.”
Obama's favorable rating is 55 percent, with 42 percent unfavorable views. Trump's is 44 percent, with 49 percent unfavorable. Five percent underwater compared with 13 percent above. Yeah, I think Obama would have beat that guy, and not just by the nearly 3 million actual people’s votes Hillary Clinton beat him—in the antidemocratic Electoral College as well.