President Trump Attacks Michelle Obama, John Kasich On Twitter For Democratic National Convention Speeches

President Trump went into attack mode Tuesday, hitting back at Democratic National Convention speakers who were highly critical of his behavior and overall presidency, calling Democrats desperate and accusing his predecessor of corruption.

On the first night of the convention, which will culminate Thursday with the nomination of former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, speaker after speaker Monday night deplored Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, management style and authoritarian tendencies.

The most scathing critique came from former first lady Michelle Obama who warned: “If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we don't make a change.”

Obama said Trump “is the wrong president for our country.”

“He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is,” she said, echoing Trump’s comment earlier this month when asked pointedly in an Axios interview about deaths resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump responded Tuesday by saying he wouldn’t be in the White House now if it wasn’t for “the job done by your husband.”

He then attacked the Obama administration response in 2009 to the H1N1 swine flu response – a critique he first trotted out in April – as a disaster. Some 17,000 people died from that pandemic, compared to nearly 171,000 deaths so far from COVID-19 as of Tuesday morning.

Trump accused the Obama administration of being the “most corrupt in history” for “spying on my campaign, the biggest political scandal in the history of our country,” calling the action “treason.”

He later told reporters he thought Michelle Obama's speech was very divisive.

Trump also called former Ohio Gov. John Kasich “a loser.” Kasich, a moderate Republican, urged fellow members of the GOP and independents to cross over and vote for former Biden, whom he described as man who understands the hopes and dreams of the common man and woman and is respectful of everyone.

“In normal times something like this probably would never happen, but these are not normal times,” referring to himself speaking at the DNC. He accused Trump of violating the principles of the Republican party.

“Many of us cannot imagine four more years going down this path,” he said, adding, America is at a crossroads. He said Biden knows the country’s future depends on “respect, unity and a common respect for everyone.”

“We do know we can do better than what we have been seeing today,” he said.

In response, Trump called Kasich a bad governor who was easy to beat in the 2016 Republican primaries.

You can watch Michelle Obama’s speech below:

You can watch John Kasich’s speech below: