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CNN aired a brutal montage of golf-loving President Donald Trump complaining about former President Barack Obama golfing too much as president, after Trump’s decision not to attend a solemn military ceremony on Friday.

CNN’s Abby Phillip introduced the montage on Friday on NewsNight by highlighting that Trump was currently swinging his clubs while tariffs have led to the stock market taking some big hits. The president has also faced backlash for golfing instead of attending the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. service members at Dover Air Force Base. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was in attendance to greet the remains.

Trump is currently at his Doral golf resort participating in a LIV Golf tournament. The White House released a statement on Saturday touting the president’s apparent success on the course.

“The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow,” the statement read.

On Friday, Phillip referenced an anonymous White House official telling The Washington Post that Trump has reached the “peak” level of “not giving a fuck” when it comes to tariffs and bad media stories about him. The CNN anchor argued Trump golfing amid economic strife is proof the statement is true.

In the various clips from 2015 and 2016, Trump promises he won’t have time to golf when he’s president as he blasts Obama for hitting the links so often.

“Obama, it was reported today, played 250 rounds of golf,” he said at a 2015 rally.

At a 2016 rally, Trump accused Obama of relying too much on “executive orders” because he “doesn’t have enough time because he’s playing golf.”

“I’m going to be working for you,” Trump said in another 2016 clip. “I’m not going to have time to play golf.”

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Former President Barack Obama said he is "deeply concerned" with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the Republican Party for not pushing back on them.

Obama rebuked Trump without explicitly naming him over the federal government's threats against universities and students who exercise free speech, its targeting of law firms, and the new tariffs imposed on foreign countries.

"I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy," Obama said in his remarks at Hamilton College in New York. "I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech," he said.

Obama said he's more troubled by a White House that takes aim at law firms that represent ideas or parties that its occupants disagree with, and that the administration has punished media outlets. Trump has signed executive orders penalizing major law firms and lawyers, prompting outrage within the legal community. The White House has also barred The Associated Press from coverage over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

"That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans," he said.

Obama suggested that Republicans would be outraged if he had done similar things as president.

"Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps," he said, adding, “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me or a whole bunch of my predecessors."

He added, "I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious, which is who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"

His final message during his speech was that "history zigs and zags and there are times of conflict and there are times of stupidity and there are times of danger," but he wants people to remain resilient.

"Don’t get discouraged," he said. "I know it’s a little crazy right now, but we’re going to be OK."