President Barack Obama delivered a passionate plea last night for the American people to elect his former cabinet member Hillary Clinton. His message was steeped in patriotism, bashes against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and strong rhetoric in favor of Ms. Clinton.

Obama frequently compared Ms. Clinton’s campaign to his own eight years ago and concluded that Hillary Clinton is more qualified to serve as president than he or Bill Clinton were prior to their own elections.

“There has never been another man or woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America,” President Obama said to a standing ovation and a laughing Bill Clinton.

Scattered throughout his speech were slams against the Republican campaign and its nominee Donald Trump.

“America is already great,” President Obama said, referencing Mr. Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America great again.”

“Our strength, our greatness does not depend on Donald Trump,” President Obama continued.

In response to President Obama’s speech, Mr. Trump took to the Twitter stage and posted “Our country does not feel ‘great already’ to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair.”

Probably purposefully contrary to the Republican platform that Democrats typically believe unjustly focuses on the negative, President Obama spoke repeatedly of his hope and his faith in the American people and its future, saying that it was the American people who fueled his hope in the future.

He continued by arguing that the election of Clinton would be a continuance of the right direction on which he tried to lead America.

“Tonight I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I ask you to carry her the same way you did me.”

Mr. Trump took to Twitter to respond to this claim as well. “President Obama spoke last night about a world that doesn’t exist. 70% of the people think our country is going in the wrong direction,” he posted.

President Obama concluded his much-anticipated speech with all the same themes that permeated his speech as a whole – Ms. Clinton will be the continuance of his legacy, she is the right choice for president, and Mr. Trump will hurt America.

“Now I’m ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen,” he said. “This year, in this election, I’m asking you to join me – to reject cynicism, reject fear, to summon what’s best in us: to elect Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States, and show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation.”