He warned that 'the rule of law, democracy, competency and facts' are not partisan but also don’t happen automatically.
Administration by name, he couldn't help but throw a few barbs out such as talking about the importance of having competent people in important governement posts.
Obama never mentioned the Trump Administration by name but he occasionally expressed his disapproval through quips and jokes. He said there are several keys to good leadership and, doubling down on his theme of competency, he said one of the big ones was hiring. Sometimes the people who rise to become the big boss"start feeling, 'I have every answer.' When in fact, most of the time you have not," he warned.He told the story of what it was like for him during the Deep Water Horizon oil spill crises in the spring of 2010.
"Fortunately I had recruited as my Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who was a Nobel Prize winning physicist," he said. "My role as the leader in the organization was not to come up with the little hat because I wouldn't have thought of that. I would have thought, 'that doesn't look complicated enough to stop this hole in the ground,'" he joked.
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