KEY POINTS

  • Donald Trump once wished Barack Obama ill during the Ebola crisis
  • Donald Trump and Barack Obama's treatment of major crises was recently compared 
  • The POTUS has been dubbed as a whiner and a hypocrite by a journalist 

Donald Trump was recently called a hypocrite and the biggest whiner after his previous tweet about Barack Obama was unearthed.

In 2014, the POTUS was upset with then-President Obama and how he handled the Ebola crisis that he lashed out at him online.

“President Obama has a personal responsibility to visit and embrace all people in the US who contract Ebola!” Trump tweeted.

Political Flare journalist Jason Miciak took offense with the POTUS’ previous tweet by saying that all the president knows how to do is to be mean back because he thinks he’s being treated horribly.

“But that is real Trump. It is him, back when he didn’t have to deal with the epidemic, nor have to deal with the American people who might fall victim to the disease. It is critical to recall that Ebola was far far more deadly than the Coronavirus, striking far more fear in people’s hearts. In effect, Trump was telling people he absolutely wished death upon Obama from Ebola,” Miciak wrote.

Meanwhile, shortly after POTUS tweeted about Ebola and Obama, Twitter user @JamahlAnderson uploaded a photo of Michelle Obama’s husband hugging a nurse who recovered from the deadly illness. Dallas nurse Nina Pham had the opportunity to meet the ex-POTUS when she visited the White House.

Miciak then described Obama as a compassionate man, who attempted to set the nation at ease during the Ebola crisis years ago. However, the same cannot be said about Trump who downplayed the deadly Coronavirus until after one death was reported in the United States.

Twitter user @Jacquel0058283 also retweeted the photo of Obama hugging the recovered nurse with a cryptic caption shading Trump’s marriage to Melania Trump.

“45 doesn’t hug his wife like that. She’s probably happy he doesn’t,” she wrote.

Trump is not the biggest hugger so it is quite rare to see him hugging the FLOTUS or even his five children in public. Obama, on the other hand, is more affectionate towards his wife and daughters.

US President Donald Trump (left) has cast his economic record, fueled by tax cuts and deregulation, as far surpassing that of former president Barack Obama (right)
US President Donald Trump (left) has cast his economic record, fueled by tax cuts and deregulation, as far surpassing that of former president Barack Obama (right) AFP / JIM WATSON