Kamala Harris’ Campaign Posts Clips of Obama Trashing Trump on Truth Social

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign shared clips of former President Barack Obama taking jabs at Republican nominee Donald Trump during a campaign event last night and posted them on Trump’s social media platform.
On Thursday evening, Obama hit the campaign trail in the highly contested battleground state of Pennsylvania to headline a rally for the Democratic Harris-Walz ticket. Obama secured the state during both of his terms, and Trump narrowly won it in 2016. The state flipped to President Joe Biden in 2020.
State polls indicate a tight race between Harris and Trump, with aggregate results fluctuating between a slim lead for either candidate. The New York Times’ aggregate has the race deadlocked at 48 percent, while FiveThirtyEight shows Harris with a 0.4-point lead, and RealClearPolitics gives Trump the same margin.
During the rally, Obama contrasted Harris and Trump, often going on the offensive against his successor. He touched on the economy, the top concern for voters in this election.
Last night, Harris’ campaign posted a video clip on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, featuring Obama saying, “And the reason some people think, ‘I remember that economy when he [Trump] first came being pretty good.’ Yeah, it was good because it was my economy.”
He continued, “We had had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him. It wasn’t something he did. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me.”
The Harris campaign tagged Trump in the post.
Trump created Truth Social in early 2022 after he was banned from other social media platforms, notably Twitter, for violating its rules moments ahead of the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
He has since been allowed back on the platform, now called X, but he posts on Truth Social most often. Truth Social prides itself on protecting free speech and having less moderation and restrictions than other mainstream platforms.
In response to Obama’s comments last night, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Newsweek: “Barack Hussein Obama couldn’t even make a coherent defense of Kamala Harris’ record because even he knows she represents a disastrous four years of skyrocketing inflation, an out-of-control border, and rampant crime that terrorizes communities across the country.”
In another Truth Social post minutes later, Harris’ campaign shared an over 3-and-a-half-minute video in which Obama says, “Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.”
He went on to criticize various Trump-branded merchandise, saying that he’s selling “a Trump Bible. He wants you to buy the Word of God, Donald Trump edition. He’s got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke. Who does that?”
Obama’s speech also touched on other Trump merchandise, including the recently announced Trump watches.