Matt Lauer Asked If Obama Could Imagine Trump Giving a State of the Union. Here’s His Response.
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Matt Lauer asked President Barack Obama if he could imagine Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address. His response:
“Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday Night Live skit.”
Snap.
Obama also dismissed Trump’s chances of winning the presidency.
“I’m pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of Americans are looking for the kind of politics that does feed our hopes and not our fears, that does work together and doesn’t try to divide, that isn’t looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating but looks for us buckling down and figuring out, ‘How do we make things work for the next generation?'”
He also gave a preview of what will be his final State of the Union tonight: “Part of what I want to do in this last address is to remind people, you know what, we’ve got a lot of good things going for us and if we can get our politics right, it turns out that we’re not as divided on the ideological spectrum as people make us out to be.”
He’s right: America is in pretty good shape.
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Matt Lauer Asked If Obama Could Imagine Trump Giving a State of the Union. Here’s His Response.
