Hypocrite In Chief: 5 Tweets That Prove Trump Is A Fraud


Donald Trump has given new meaning to the word “hypocrite.” In the four short yet shocking months of his presidency, the man has carried out nearly every action he used to criticize in Obama.

It’s almost as if he’s doing his best to go back to his days as a Democrat.

Here’s a list of some of the ways Trump has become the person he said he’d never be.

1. Presidential Golfing

We all remember when Donald Trump used to rant and rave about how often President Obama used to golf.

Now? Politifact reports that so far Trump has golfed 15 times more often than the man he railed against. Hypocrite!

2. Those Vacation Costs

Trump was critical of Obama for taking vacations that cost the taxpayers too much money. Isn’t that hilarious?

The Independent reports that in his first 100 days in office, Trump cost the taxpayers $20 million for his trips to Mar-a-lago and other Trump properties. Obama cost $98 million in eight years. And he didn’t profit from any of it, either.

3. Lack of Experience

If you can believe it, Donald Trump used to criticize President Obama because of his lack of experience in foreign policy.

This, of course, came from the man who told a room full of Israeli’s that he had just returned from the Middle East. He doesn’t even know where he’s standing, much less how to handle foreign policy.

4. Those Executive Orders

One of the biggest complaints from the conservative right during Obama’s years was his use of executive orders. They screamed about executive overreach. They blasted the President for acting like a tyrant and imposing his will on the country.

Trump was one of the complainers.

Yeah, those executive orders were just terrible. No doubt that’s why Trump signed more of them in his first 100 days than the guy he was complaining about.

4. Lobbing Bombs In Syria

In 2013, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed was full of dire warning to President Obama. Don’t bomb Syria or real bad things will happen! You darn well better make sure you get Congressional approval before you bomb Syria, and so on.

Yet on April 7th of this year, Trump did bomb an airfield in Syria. No, he didn’t get approval from Congress, although he did apparently warn the Russians.

5. Saying the Magic Words

When President Barack Obama talked about the struggles to contain terrorists around the world, he talked about extremism. Donald Trump went nuts, berating the President for refusing to say the words “radical Islamic terrorism.” As if saying the words would fix the problem.

And yet, as we all know, in his big speech to the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia the other day, Trump never once uttered those magic words.

See?

It’s almost as if he’s become another person than the one who spent years beating up on Barack Obama.

One has to wonder how it is that he still has supporters.

Featured image via Wikimedia Commons.

Karen is a retired elementary school teacher with many years of progressive activism behind her. She is the proud mother of three young adults who were all arrested with Occupy Wall Street. To see what she writes about in her spare time, check out her blog at "Empty Nest, Full Life"