President Trump is firing back at former first lady Michelle Obama following her blistering Democratic National Convention address.
During Obama's speech, she said the president is "clearly in over his head." Trump called her address "very divisive," while decrying the positive reviews it has received among pundits and once again complaining that she didn't deliver it live.
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