Trump slams Biden and Obama for failing in the Middle East… and delivers the ultimate payback to Hillary Clinton
President Donald Trump harshly criticized his predecessors and his former Democratic rival for failing to bring stability to the Middle East in a blockbuster speech to the Israeli parliament on Monday.
The Republican was in Israel to address the Knesset, the country’s main legislative body, and to be on the ground as Hamas handed over Israeli hostages it had held captive since the start of the war two years ago.
Speaking for the better part of an hour, Trump declared a new dawn in the Middle East, where countries at odds could now come together to make deals, negotiate better trade deals and rebuild Gaza.
But the combative president did not let the conciliatory moment stop him from blaming former Democratic presidents for their failure to stabilize the region.
“All the countries in the Middle East could have done what we’re doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but they were stifled and almost irreversibly hindered by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,” Trump said. ‘There was hatred towards Israel.’
‘No one wanted Joe Biden to come and speak, I guarantee that,’ he added. Trump is only the fourth president to address the Knesset; Former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were also given this honor.
‘We had very poor management. “By far the worst president in the history of our country, and Barack Obama wasn’t far behind, by the way,” Trump said, referring to Biden.
In his speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, President Donald Trump harshly criticized former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their failure to ensure stability in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama (C) flanked by Vice President Joseph Biden (2nd-L), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd-R) and Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James E. Cartwright speak to reporters about his administration’s annual review of Afghanistan-Pakistan in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on December 16, 2010.
He said Biden was ‘incompetent’ and a ‘corrupt crook.’
Representatives for Biden and Obama did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
The 79-year-old president also attacked Obama for signing the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed America’s foe to expand its fledgling nuclear programs; According to US intelligence, Iran was also trying to build a nuclear bomb.
“The setbacks actually started when President Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal,” Trump said in his statement to the Knesset. ‘This was a disaster for Israel and a disaster for everyone.’
The Republican also cited previous conversations with world leaders in which he expressed concerns about the direction of the United States under Democratic administrations.
‘I heard this for the first time from the King of Saudi Arabia. Then I heard this [the United Arab Emirates]. I heard from Qatar. I heard this from many countries. A year ago, the United States was a dead country. It is now the hottest country anywhere in the world. It is the hottest. “There’s no doubt about it,” Trump shared.
He also took aim at his former political rival and 2016 presidential rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who attacked Trump during the campaign as a president who would start conflicts.
‘Everyone thought I would be ruthless. I remember Hillary Clinton saying during a debate: “Look at him, look at him. He’s going to go to war with everyone!”
Speaking to CBS News after the Republican Party announced the signing of a peace agreement between Hamas and Israel, Clinton said, “This is a really important first step, and I really appreciate Trump and his administration.”
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of the Fordo facility in Iran after Trump authorized ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’ to bomb the country’s mountainous nuclear enrichment facility
‘But when you solve eight wars in eight months, that means you don’t like war!’ Trump said.
He likened her warning to ‘yet another example of failed political scare tactics’.
Over the weekend, Clinton praised the current president’s peace agreement between Hamas and Israel.
“This is a really important first step, and I really appreciate Trump and his administration,” Clinton told CBS News.
