He added bluntly: “There’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television.”
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Obama went on to criticize the actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration.
“It is important for us to recognize the unprecedented nature of what ICE was doing in Minneapolis, St. Paul, the way that federal agents, ICE agents were being deployed, without any clear guidelines, training, pulling people out of their homes, using five-year-olds to try to bait their parents, all the stuff that we saw, teargassing crowds simply who were standing there, not breaking any laws,” Obama said.
