The current presidential administration is not coping with the coronavirus pandemic, said the former head of state Barack Obama. According to him, “people in leadership positions do not even try to pretend that they are responsible for something.”
How Obama stepped up criticism of US authorities
He had previously criticized Trump for his decision to end the prosecution of General Michael Flynn. According to experts, in this way, Obama is indirectly trying to support his ally Joe Biden, a rival to Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election.
Former US President Barack Obama criticized the current US government, saying that they can’t cope with the crisis caused by the spread of a new type of coronavirus in the country. He said this during an appeal to graduates of colleges and universities.
“The most important thing is that this pandemic completely, completely removed the curtain of delusion that supposedly many people in leadership positions understand what they are doing. A large number of them do not even try to pretend that they are responsible for something, ”Obama said in his online address.
Despite the fact that the former head of the White House in his address did not mention Trump by name, Western media regarded this statement as a direct criticism of the current president before the upcoming 2020 elections. This is how the statement of Barack Obama was presented to its readers and viewers by The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN and several other media.
Recall that, according to Johns Hopkins University, which maintains statistics on the incidence of COVID-19 in the United States, more than 1.4 million cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in the country. More than 89 thousand people have died.
Earlier, American doctors in a series of interviews drew attention to the high mortality rate of patients with COVID-19, the lack of personal protective equipment for health workers and test systems for patients.
The pandemic has seriously affected the American economy. In early May, US unemployment reached its highest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s, amounting to 14.7%. In some cities in the United States, protests were held demanding the removal of restrictive measures to restore the economy.