US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Barack
Obama of making violent statements and complicating the impending transfer of
power — the latest aggressive act in an escalating war of words with the
current commander-in-chief.
“Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President
Obama statements and roadblocks,” Trump said on Twitter.
“Thought
it was going to be a smooth transition – NOT!”
The
social media jab is the latest from the 70-year-old real estate mogul aimed at
Obama, in what has become a most unconventional transition between the outgoing
Democrat and the incoming Republican leader.
Obama
said in an interview released earlier this week that he could have been
re-elected for a third term if he had been eligible and that the nation still
largely embraces his political vision.
“I
am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and
articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people
to rally behind it,” Obama told the interviewer, his former senior adviser David
Axelrod.
It
was not immediately clear what exactly Trump was referring to in the first
tweet, but minutes later, he took Obama to task over his policy on Israel.
“We
cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and
disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the US, but…” he wrote.
“Not
anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this
(UN)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
Last
week, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a halt to Israeli
settlement building in Palestinian territory.
The
United States declined to use its veto, instead abstaining and thus enabling
the adoption of the first UN resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over
settlement policy.
Trump,
who takes office on January 20, had publicly called for the United States to
veto the resolution and has repeatedly criticized Obama’s approach.
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