Barack Obama has issued a defiant scathing attack on incoming President Donald Trump, ordering military troops to ignore the new Commander-in-chief. During his final address to the armed forces, Obama told troops that once Trump became their boss, soldiers should constantly question Trump’s authority and criticize him. Breitbart.com reports: Obama stood before soldiers at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, December 6, to talk about “the foundation that we will leave for the next administration,” CNSNews.com reported. Characterizing the military’s mission as a fight against “violent extremism,” Obama insisted that soldiers need to rise up against Trump if they feel he is pushing policies that are ill considered. Obama told the troops, “each of us has…the universal right to speak your minds and to protest against authority; to live in a society that’s open and free; that can criticize our president without retribution.” Obama went on to insist that a proper U.S. policy against “violent extremism” is a “long term” policy. “So rather than offer false promises that we can eliminate terrorism by dropping more bombs or deploying more and more troops or fencing ourselves off from the rest of the world,” Obama said, “we have to take a [...]
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