Barack Obama calls on Americans to defend democratic values ​​in the face of Trump’s agenda | Barack Obama

Barack Obama called on American citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Donald Trump’s political agenda – and warned the Americans to prepare to “perhaps sacrifice” democratic values.

“It was easy during most of our lives to say that you are a progressive or that you are for social justice or that you are for freedom of expression and that you do not have to pay prices,” Obama said during a speech at the Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on Thursday.

The former Democratic President with two mandates painted a painting by Trump’s White House seeking to upset the international order created after the Second World War – and an internal political reconfiguration in which the ideological disagreement falling into mutual respect for freedom of expression and the state of eroded law.

“It is up to us to solve this problem,” said Obama, including “the citizen, the ordinary person who says:” No, that’s not true “.”

Obama said he disagreed with some of the President’s economic policies, including new widespread prices. But the former president said he was “More deeply concerned about a federal government which threatens universities if they do not abandon students who exercise their right to freedom of expression.”

Which has referred to the Trump administration decisions to draw federal funding from the best universities unless they accept to abandon students’ diversity programs and implement directives on what it considered the border between legitimate protest to support Palestine and anti -Semitism.

Obama also said that schools and students should examine environments on campus around academic freedom issues and be ready to lose government funding for their defense.

“If you are a university, you may have to understand:” Are we, in fact, do things correctly? “” He said during the conversation at Hamilton College. “Have we actually violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in one way or another?”

“Otherwise, and you are just intimidated, well, you should be able to say:” This is why we got this great endowment. “”

The University of Columbia, in New York, has become the centerpiece of administration efforts to suppress via federal funding on what it maintains to be demonstrations on the campus against the War of Israel-Hamas which has moved away from anti-Semitism.

Federal immigration agents arrested and sought to expel a graduate student who said he had raped immigration rules by initiating pro-Palestine demonstrations. Another student continued after immigration agents tried to arrest and expel him after also participating in such demonstrations.

The University has agreed to modify policies, including security agents hiring with arrest powers and prohibiting protests in university buildings, after the Trump administration has stripped of $ 400 million in federal subsidies. The administration says that it could now restore money.

Harvard, the Princeton University and other institutions are also under the examination of federal funding on their policies on the issue.

“Now we are at one of those moments when you know what? It is not enough to say that you are for something; you may have to do something,” said Obama.

The former president then asked for agreements between business law firms and the administration after being struck by decrees according to their link with the lawyers involved in the prosecution efforts against Trump during the presidency of Joe Biden – or to represent current political opponents of the administration.

“It is unimaginable that the same parties who remain silent would now have tolerated a behavior like that of me or a lot of my predecessors,” said Obama, questioning the White House decision to restrict the access of the Associated Press to the official events on the decision of the press agency to reject the reputation by Trump from the Gulf of the Gulf of America.