Republican Talking Head Compares Obama HBCU Speech To ‘Political Drive-By Barack Obama delivers remarks during the commencement ceremony at Morehouse College (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Republican pundit and former top Bush administration staffer Karl Rove ranted on Fox News, calling former President Barack Obama’s commencement speech to historically black colleges and university graduates a “political drive-by shooting.”
“It is so unseemly for a former president to take the virtual commencement ceremony for a series of historically black colleges and universities and turn it into a political drive-by shooting,” Rove said.
Rove added he thought Obama “slandered” Trump and was “taking a slap” at the officials on the White House COVID-19 Task Force with his comments.
While Obama did not call Trump out by name, the former president did knock the Trump administration’s coronavirus response during the ‘Show Me Your Walk HBCU Edition’ event hosted by JPMorgan Chase.
“We see it in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our communities, just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn’t submit to their questioning,” the former president said.
