Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Doesn’t Understand Why Obama’s Fear-Mongering Doesn’t Get Same Scrutiny as Trump’s

On the day before the midterm elections, Fox & Friends covered the varying rhetorical tactics between current and former presidents.

President Donald Trump is doing a remarkable number of pre-election rallies where he continues to talk about “mobs not jobs” and decrying an “invasion” of a caravan of thousands of migrants that are roughly 1,000 miles away (traveling by foot.)

President Barack Obama is also out on the campaign trail talking about how the midterms are a referendum on the Trump administration, which he predictably paints in stark political terms.

In the eyes of host Brian Kilmeade, both are guilty of fear-mongering, though he doesn’t understand why Obama is getting a pass:

“I mean, President Obama, unbelievable charisma the way he can speak. How convincing he delivers it as a public speaker without fear. We watched him for eight years and seen his promises and policies they fall flat. He is saying the same thing as President Trump only says it more eloquently. He does talk about fear. He does talk about what will happen if you don’t vote my way. He just does it in a different way. But the message is the same. If you don’t vote my way, the world is going to end. Where President Trump says if you don’t vote my way the world is going to change. It’s the same thing. I just don’t understand why President Obama doesn’t get the same scrutiny. “

Let’s put aside the partisan nonsense about his “promises and policies” falling flat and leave that debate for another day. But yes they are both talking about fear but Obama is talking about Trump’s USE of fear, while Obama is advocating AGAINST it. And therein lies the difference.

Watch the clip above courtesy of Fox News.