Former President Barack Obama urged Americans to resist the policies of President Donald Trump, asserting that the current occupant of the White House wants to throw off the international order established after World War II.
The former commander in chief delivered a speech on Thursday at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, during which he made the call for Americans to “possibly sacrifice” while opposing Trump, according to a report from The Washington Post.
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The newspaper, pulling quotes from CNN reporter David Wright obtained from the unrecorded event, noted that Obama claimed Trump is acting “contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans.”
Obama, according to Post, never used Trump’s name, but said he is “deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech.”
He insisted that universities should even dig into their endowments rather than buckle under Trump’s threats to cut their funds.
Obama also defended the global system that grew up in the aftermath of World War II and indicated that Trump was seeking to undo the status quo of the past eight decades, according to a report from WKTV in Utica.
“All of you have grown up in an international order that was created by America after World War II,” he told his audience.