Ditka calls Obama ‘the worst president we’ve ever had’

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FILE - In this Oct. 7,2011 file photo, former Chicago Bears head football coach Mike Ditka presents President Barack Obama with a jersey as the 1985 Super Bowl XX Champions Chicago Bears football team are honored on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, who has repeatedly voiced his support for Donald Trump to the Chicago Sun-Times, blasted President Obama during a radio appearance Thursday.

“Obama is the worst president we’ve ever had,” Ditka told hosts Sid Rosenberg and Bernard McGuirk during an appearance on their morning show on WABC-AM in New York.

Ditka, who guided the 1985 Bears to a Super Bowl victory, questioned Obama’s skills as a leader.

“Barack Obama’s a fine man. I mean, he’s pleasant,” Ditka said. “He would be great to play golf with. He’s not a leader. This country needs leadership. It needs direction. It needs somebody that steps up front. We need somebody like Ronald Reagan.

“Every once in a while you’re going to get punched in the chops. But you keep going forward. That’s all there is to it,” he added. “You know it’s not always going to be a perfect situation, but to do what he does, there’s no leadership there. I think that becomes very disgusting to me.”

Ditka also took shots at Democratic-favorite Hillary Clinton. When the show’s hosts played a clip of Clinton declaring Republicans want to take America back to the “Jim Crow past,” a disgusted Ditka said that “filthy statement”  could make you “throw up.”

“If I were to vote tomorrow,” Ditka said, “I’d probably vote for Trump.”


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