It was a speech that couldn’t have broken more sharply with the past administration both in style and substance. Trump didn’t mention Hillary Clinton, a woman who earned nearly 3 million more votes in the presidential election. And he did make a point of saying “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase conservatives have long chided the Obama administration for eschewing.
With the former president looking on, Trump delivered a speech bereft of the soaring rhetoric for which Obama was both praised and lambasted during