""There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office," Obama said in the interview, which was posted on YouTube Saturday. "There's this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television," Obama added, describing much of the noise around Trump's presidency as a "distraction"."
""It is important for us to recognize the unprecedented nature of what ICE was doing in Minneapolis, St. Paul, the way that federal agents, ICE agents were being deployed, without any clear guidelines, training, pulling people out of their homes, using five-year-olds to try to bait their parents, all the stuff that we saw, teargassing crowds simply who were standing there, not breaking any laws," the 44th president said."
Barack Obama said many Americans find the racist video depicting him and Michelle Obama deeply troubling. He noted a diminished sense of shame among people who once valued decorum, propriety, and respect for the office. He described much of the social media and television noise around the presidency as a "clown show" and a distraction. He criticized ICE operations in Minneapolis–St. Paul as unprecedented, citing deployments without clear guidelines or training, agents pulling people from their homes, and tactics involving young children. He condemned teargassing of largely peaceful crowds and urged commitment to stated American values.
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