Barack Obama Archive
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Prince Harry, Barack Obama and Joe Biden: Invictus Games surprise
Posted on 29.09.2017 | No CommentsFormer U.S. President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to the Invictus Games in Toronto, where the pair sat alongside Prince Harry at a wheelchair basketball game. -
Fidel Castro, longtime Cuban dictator and U.S. adversary, dead at 90
Posted on 26.11.2016 | No CommentsThe bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as possibly hundreds of assassination plots, died eight years after relinquishing power -
In January, Trump will takeover @POTUS — and one Tweet could change how foreign leaders see U.S. policy
Posted on 16.11.2016 | No Comments'To take away Twitter from Donald Trump is to strip away part of who he is.' Trump's team has not yet said how he will use the @POTUS account, if at all -
Donald J. Trump will be president of the United States: How the stunning political upset happened
Posted on 09.11.2016 | No Comments'We owe (Clinton) a major debt of gratitude,' Trump said. "Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.... It is time for us to come together' -
Has Donald Trump finally run out of time — and chances — to win?
Posted on 08.10.2016 | No CommentsDonald Trump is now behind by a small but clear margin nationally and in a series of swing states, raising the question: Is there time for a comeback? -
‘Braggadocious’: Clinton and Trump’s first debate heated freewheeling affair
Posted on 27.09.2016 | No CommentsThe debate was heated from the start, with Trump frequently trying to interrupt Clinton and speaking over her answers -
Taking aim at Trump, Obama says even a third-grader knows slavery ‘wasn’t good for black people’
Posted on 24.09.2016 | No CommentsTrump has suggested repeatedly that black Americans should vote for him because of the dire circumstances they now face: 'What the hell do you have to lose?' -
Trump campaign says he is no longer a ‘birther’ — but GOP candidate refuses to say it himself
Posted on 16.09.2016 | No CommentsTrump was, for many years, the most prominent proponent of the ‘birther’ movement, which claimed Obama was born outside the U.S. and thus ineligible to be president -
President Obama’s 9/11 memorial remarks include a veiled criticism of Donald Trump
Posted on 11.09.2016 | No CommentsObama described an America made up of 'people drawn from every corner of the world...We know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage is not a weakness' -
With party conventions over, Trump and Clinton campaigns hit the ground running
Posted on 30.07.2016 | No CommentsA distraction arose, as Clinton aides acknowledged that a hacking attack that exposed Democratic Party emails also reached into her campaign's computer -
‘He has no clue, period’: Fractious Democrats seem to unite over attacks on Donald Trump
Posted on 28.07.2016 | No CommentsIn a night full of dark warnings, Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone. And he said no one is more qualified to serve as president than Hillary Clinton -
U.S. would consider extraditing cleric that Erdogan blames for attempted Turkey coup — but it wants proof
Posted on 16.07.2016 | No CommentsFethullah Gulen has harshly condemned the attempted coup attempt by military officers, but President Erdogan continues to blame the cleric living in Pennsylvania