Trump Makes Clinton, Obama Say the Words

Donald Trump’s declarations that President Obama should be tossed out of office — and Hillary Clinton barred from ever taking the presidency — for their refusal to utter two key words proved to be extraordinarily effective in eliciting a response.

Just a day after Trump unleashed his initial criticism, Clinton on Monday finally addressed the radical ideology that motivated gunman Omar Mateen to enter a gay nightclub in Orlando and open fire, killing 49 people and wounding 53. Then on Tuesday, Obama finally screwed up the courage to give a name to America’s enemy — “radical Islam.” Facing an onslaught from Trump — and clearly aware how weak their milquetoast stances were — the two Democrats bowed to Trump’s pressure and addressed the escalating threat that Islamic terrorism poses to the United States.

“If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘Radical Islam’ she should get out of this race for the Presidency.”

Trump had no problem uttering the words shortly after the Orlando massacre. “Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist.” And he threw down the gantlet in his Sunday statement. “President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words ‘Radical Islam.’ For that reason alone, he should step down. If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘Radical Islam.’ she should get out of this race for the presidency.”

One day later, Clinton caved and tried to save face in the court of public opinion.

“I have clearly said we have terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people,” Clinton said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. “To me, radical jihadism, radical Islamism, they mean the same thing. I’m happy to say either but that’s not the point.”

Obama followed suit the following day — though nowhere near in the same manner as Clinton. Instead, he chose his normal path — a lecturing, patronizing and condescending tutorial on how it really doesn’t matter what we call radical Islamic terrorism.

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“So there’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point,” Obama said on Tuesday, his tone dripping with disdain and contempt for the presumed GOP nominee. “This is a political distraction.”

“What exactly would using this language accomplish? What exactly would it change?” Obama continued. “Would it make ISIL less committed to try and kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above.”

Obama’s comments then took a severe turn to the politically correct.

“Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating them because of their faith? We’ve heard these suggestions during the course of this campaign,” Obama said. “Do Republican officials actually agree with this? Because that’s not the America we want. It doesn’t reflect our Democratic ideals. It will make us less safe.”

Obama has long refused to name America’s enemy, going to extreme lengths at times. When a devout Muslim killed 13 soldiers in an Army bas in Fort Hood, Texas, Obama dismissed the massacre as “workplace violence.” After two radical Muslim slaughtered 14 in San Bernardino in December, Obama didn’t call name “radical Islam” as the source of the violence, but instead lectured America and warned against making “any decisive judgments in terms of how this occurred” to avoid offending Muslims. And after the U.S. ambassador to Libya was murdered along with three other Americans by Muslim terrorists, Obama refused for 10 days to label the attack as “Islamic terrorism.”

On Tuesday, Obama sought to belittle all those who think he should simply name America’s No. 1 enemy. And he was most concerned about offending the murderers.

“We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests that entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop? The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer — they were all U.S. citizens,” he said.

And Obama derided critics as “yapping” about radical Islam, seeking to define those who even say the words as trying to paint all 1 billion Muslims with the same broad strokes. “Now, up until this point, this argument about labels has mostly just been partisan rhetoric. And, sadly, we’ve all become accustomed to that kind of partisanship, even when it involves the fight against these extremist groups. And that kind of yapping has not prevented folks across government from doing their jobs,” he said.

Then he directly targeted Trump. “We are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be. We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us. We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from emigrating to America.”

Of course, that’s not at all what Trump has said. In fact, he said the U.S. should put a temporary hold on allowing refugees from warring Muslim nations until stringent oversight methodology could be put in place.

Demonstrating that he still will not adequately address the real threat that radical Islamic terrorism poses to the United States, Obama proceeded to blame excessive internet browsing and disturbed mental facilities for the Orlando massacre — not the fervent belief in radical Islamic ideology evidenced in Mateen’s words and actions.

“It is increasingly clear, however, that the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet,” Obama said. “He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized.”

These remarks have just proven themselves to be further evidence that Obama — as well as Clinton — are enslaved in a politically correct captivity. And Trump pointed that out on Tuesday, saying Clinton only uttered the words “because of me, I’m forcing her into this.”

“She was shamed into it by me, and that’s because of the pressure I put on her,” Trump said.

And the same goes for Obama — and he knows it.