{"id":70135,"date":"2018-07-18T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=70135"},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:21:33","slug":"obama-uses-mandela-to-bash-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/obama-uses-mandela-to-bash-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Uses Mandela To Bash President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73712\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/obamahavingfun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/obamahavingfun.jpg 900w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/obamahavingfun-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/obamahavingfun-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>Obama Uses Mandela To Bash President Trump<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"bold\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to avoid electing a Donald Trump by Barack Obama On A Mandela Stage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3998\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/nelsonmandelakillboer.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The policy of the people whom Obama has no problem with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a swipe to his successor Donald Trump, who often refers to criticism as \u201cfake news\u201d, Obama warned of the dire consequences of an era where social media has contributed to the dissemination of mis- and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenial of facts is contrary to democracy. In fact, it may undo it,\u201d Obama warned.<\/p>\n<p>His message in front of thousands of South Africans at a packed Wanderers cricket stadium in Johannesburg was relevant to a country recovering from the devastating consequences of decades of colonialism and apartheid, and the misrule of the Jacob Zuma administration, marred by corruption and minimal growth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22056\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22056\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/obamas-hero.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamas-hero.jpg 500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamas-hero-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Obama&#8217;s Hero Mandela with Mandela&#8217;s Hero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the country is grappling with issues of economic transformation, land reform, rampant corruption, Obama\u2019s message to South Africa was well-timed: if you believe in democracy and freedom, now is the time to stand up for what <a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/2013\/07\/05\/saint-mandela-not-so-fast-read-this-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mandela<\/a> fought for.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is ghastly: a country run by racist, strongmen leaders who do not care about human rights and are only in it for themselves.\u00a0At times, it felt as if Obama was giving South Africa tips how to avoid electing a Trump-like leader. The statesman is obviously very worried about what is unfolding back home.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds familiar? Obama\u2019s speech was full of references to Trump, without mentioning him by name once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; News24 (Pictures Google)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Uses Mandela To Bash President Trump How to avoid electing a Donald Trump by Barack Obama On A Mandela Stage In a swipe to his successor Donald Trump, who often refers to criticism as \u201cfake news\u201d, Obama warned of the dire consequences of an era where social media has contributed to the dissemination of mis- and disinformation. \u201cDenial of facts is contrary to democracy. In fact, it may undo it,\u201d Obama warned. His message in front of thousands of South Africans at a packed Wanderers cricket stadium in Johannesburg<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/obama-uses-mandela-to-bash-president-trump\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73710,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135\/revisions\/73710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}