CLEVELAND _ President Barack Obama drew up a long list of perceived offenses by Donald Trump on Friday and then judged them derisively in one repeated phrase: "Come on, man."
Trump has shown no regard for working people, Obama alleged, and now wants to call himself their champion? "Come on, man," the president said.
Instead of trying to be part of the global elite, he now wants to complain about their rigged system? "Come on, man!"
Ripping a page from Trump's own playbook, replete with sarcasm and ridicule, Obama mocked the Republican presidential nominee during much of his morning rally here, going off his prepared remarks repeatedly.
"Where am I?" he asked at one point, trying to find his place on the teleprompter.
If you're tough, Obama said, you don't make excuses.
If you're a terrific businessman, he said, you don't file for bankruptcy repeatedly.
If you run a casino, he went on, you make money.
"Usually the house wins," Obama said, "unless he owns the house."
He made a point of punctuating each Trump criticism with an affirmative argument for Hillary Clinton.
But in his closing, riffing on all that's on the ballot this fall, he said he forgot one big item. Progress is on the ballot, he said. Courtesy, equality, kindness _ even democracy itself.
A Bruce Springsteen soundtrack began to play him off stage before he could name Clinton.
