CHICAGO — In endorsing Donald Trump for president Tuesday, Sarah Palin said she looked forward to President Barack Obama returning to Chicago where he can gaze at Trump Tower.
Speaking in Iowa, the former governor of Alaska told a crowd "exactly one year from tomorrow" Obama will be "former President Barack Obama."
"He packs up the teleprompters and the selfie-sticks and the Greek columns and all that hopey, changey stuff and he heads on back to Chicago, where I’m sure he can find some community there to organize again.
"There, he can finally look up. President Obama will be able to look up, and there, over his head, he’ll be able to see that shining, towering, Trump Tower. Yes, Barack, he built that. And that says a lot," said Palin.
Palin said her decision to endorse Trump was sparked by the recent incident in which ten Navy sailors were briefly taken captive by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf after the Americans went into Iranian territory. U.S. officials called it a "navigational error" and one of the sailors apologized in a video shown on Iranian television.
"I’m in it, because just last week, we’re watching our sailors suffer and be humiliated on a world stage at the hands of Iranian captors in violation of international law, because a weak-kneed, capitulator-in-chief has decided America will lead from behind," Palin said.
"And he, who would negotiate deals, kind of with the skills of a community organizer maybe organizing a neighborhood tea, well, he deciding that, 'No, America would apologize' and as part of the deal, as the enemy sends a message to the rest of the world that they capture and we kowtow and we apologize, and then, we bend over and say, 'Thank you, enemy,' " the one-time GOP vice presidential candidate said.
Palin's mocking references to "community organizer" refers to Obama's time here working for the Developing Communities Project helping to create job banks and fight the city for asbestos removal from the Altgeld Gardens public housing on the far South Side.
A community organizer from 1985 to 1988, Obama has called the work “the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.”
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