Obama Slams Trump At Philadelphia Drive-In Rally Held For Biden And Harris

As you can see in a recording of the rally, this meant that the applause you would normally hear after a well-received statement was replaced by the honking of car horns.

As CBS News reported, about 300 drivers attended the event.

Throughout his speech, he shared what he admired about Biden and what makes him a fitting candidate for president.

As he put it, "I came to admire Joe as a man who has learned early on to treat everybody he meets with dignity and respect[...]and that empathy, that decency, that belief that everybody counts, that's who Joe is. That's who he'll be. And I can tell you the presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are."

PBS reported that Obama had previously stated his confidence that Biden and Senator Kamala Harris would surround themselves with dedicated public servants who know what they're doing.

As Obama said, "Tweeting at the television doesn't fix things. Making stuff up doesn't make things better. You've got to have a plan."

And his confidence in Biden's own plans, particularly in the wake of a pandemic, were apparently based on how his own administration had prepared for such an event.

As he added, "We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook. They probably used it to prop up a wobbly table somewhere."

This discourse partially concerned the stalling of relief stimulus packages under Trump's administration but it extended to what Obama cited as a lack of basic precautions among his cabinet.

As Obama put it, "Donald Trump isn't going to protect us. He can barely take the basic steps to protect himself."

In contrast, the former president presented Biden as a more stable leader to see the country through the pandemic.

As he said, "Joe's not going to screw up testing. He's not going to call scientists 'idiots.' He's not going to host a superspreader event at the White House."

He saw a particular example of this phenomenon in recent reports that Trump has been keeping a bank account in China under wraps for years.

As Obama said, "He's got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible? Can you imagine if I had had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for reelection? You think Fox News might have been a little concerned about that."

In a final joking dig on the subject, he said, "They would have called me Beijing Barry."

It's for this reason that one of the first statements he made concerned early voting options in Pennsylvania and even smaller details like the state's requirement to use both envelopes provided to ensure that one's vote counts.

As CBS News reported, this was also a major topic of a round table discussion he had with a group of Black men before the event encouraging them to resist voter apathy.

He particularly addressed the youth in this discussion and recalled his own disinterest in voting as a young man.

As he said, "I'll confess, when I was 20 years old, I wasn't all that woke."

But as he made abundantly clear during his speech at the drive-in rally that you can see here, the events surrounding this election leave us with much to wake up to.

h/t: CBS News