Obama ridicules Trump with fresh wave of stinging insults at key swing state rally

Barack Obama took aim at Donald Trump's competence and labeled his persona as 'all-pretend-tough-guy' during an Arizona rally. Obama mocked the president's recent performance at a town hall in Pennsylvania where he stopped taking questions and swayed on stage to music The popular Democrat figure was on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris at a rally in Tucson Friday 'Being here in Tucson, I'm thinking about my friend, John McCain,' Obama said. 'One of the most disturbing things about this election and Donald Trump's rise in politics is how we seem to have set aside the values that people like a John McCain stood for,' Obama said. 'When Donald Trump lies or cheats or bullies or shows utter disregard for our Constitution when he calls service members like John McCain losers because they died in battle or were captured … people make excuses for it, that it's okay so long as their side win.' He attempted to appeal to Arizona voters by invoking the memory of the state's late former senator John McCain and contrasting his qualities with Trump's Obama also appealed directly young male voters who Harris desperately needs to win over by asserting that Trump promotes toxic masculinity McCain served in the Vietnam war and was a double Purple Heart recipient who went on to earn several more military accolades.