Newt Gingrich: “Obama Could Have Accomplished More If He Was Honest Like Trump”

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Newt Gingrich, who advises Donald Trump, claimed on Wednesday the Donald Trump will be able to do a lot more than President Barack Obama if he “remains honest.”

Gingrich told NPR that right wingers will be “giddy” after they see how many executive orders Donald Trump issues in the first 48 hours of his presidency.

“I suspect that the opening 48 or 72 hours will have so many executive orders repealing Obama’s executive orders that the average conservative will be giddy with excitement,” the former Speaker of the House claimed. “This was an election that had consequence. It probably rivals the Reagan election of ’80 and the FDR election of ’32, in that sense.”

“Obama, by the way, had a similar election but couldn’t sustain it, partly because he kept lying,” Gingrich said. “And this will be a real test for Trump. If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who’s authentic, he’s going to go a long way. If, under the pressure of the city, he starts dissembling and saying things that aren’t true, he’ll decay much as Obama did.”

Gingrich complained about Trump failing to live up to his promise to “drain the swamp.”

“I’ve noticed on a couple of fronts, like people chanting ‘lock her up,’ that he’s in a different role now and maybe he feels that as president, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps,” he observed. “I personally have, as a sense of humor, like the alligator and swamp language.”

“But, you know, he is my leader and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.”