Former US President Barack Obama has stated that “thanks to democracy, Trump has not achieved 100 percent of what he wanted”.
In an interview broadcast Saturday on the SER radio station, the former US president pointed out that “governments, as I usually say, are transatlantic ships, not motor boats. Moving the state’s machinery in a better direction requires a tremendous effort. “.
“In democracies there is a lot of pressure to quit; there are advocacy groups doing what they can so that things don’t change. It’s easier to quit something than to start something,” Barack Obama explained in the interview on the occasion of the recent publication of his memoir, ‘A Promised Land’.
He added that “one of the joys and also frustrations of democracy is that you have to compromise and you can never achieve 100 percent of what you want. The good news is that thanks to democracy, Donald Trump is not 100 percent of what he wants. wanted too. “
Regarding the covid-19 pandemic, he has considered, “If the United States government had been more responsible and effective, lives would have been saved and the disease would not have had such a devastating effect.”
He was also referring to bin Laden’s death. “I did it on purpose. We often describe the war or the fight against terrorism in aseptic terms (…) the war is sometimes necessary. I do not regret having ordered the operation that ended with Bin Laden’s death because he had plans to kill innocent people, something he had done before. ‘
Obama has acknowledged that “even the necessary wars bring about very terrible things. And that’s something that weighs on my conscience. And it must be. I would distrust a leader who didn’t think about this, who didn’t affect him.”