Michelle Obama is famous for coining the political adage, “When they go low, we go high.” Former President Donald Trump may have created a bizarro-world corollary that states “After years of going low, I will now go high only when I need to pivot to a new charm offensive that no one will buy.” Or something.
On the very evening when former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle will each give a speech to an adoring DNC crowd, Trump shared remarkably positive thoughts about the two during a brief interview with CNN Reporter Kristen Holmes.
Holmes caught up with Trump on his way to a rally in Howell, Michigan, and told Kaitlan Collins she asked Trump for “essentially a rebuttal of the speech. This is what he said, almost a complete turnaround of what we have heard him say about former President Obama before.”
“I like him, I think he’s a nice gentleman,” Trump replied before dinging Obama on policy. “He was very, very weak on trade. If you take a look at what happened to our country, trade was it was a disaster. Take a look at Japan, take a look at China. Take a look at what happened with some of these countries and what they did.”
“But I happen to like him,” Trump concluded. “I respect him, and I respect his wife.”
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