'This is not normal': Obama slams anonymous author of Trump resistance NYT op-ed and warns people against feeling comforted by it

President Barack Obama on Friday criticized the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed claiming there's a "quiet resistance" against President Donald Trump in the White House.

During a speech to students at the University of Illinois, the former president urged people against feeling comforted by the op-ed.

"That's not how our democracy is supposed to work," Obama said.not doing us a favor by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff coming out of this White House and saying, 'Don't worry, we're preventing the other 10%.'"

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The speech as a whole constituted Obama's harshest, most direct rebuke of Trump and his administration since he departed the White House.

Obama told students they were coming of age during a remarkable divisive time in US history, but he contended Trump is a "symptom" not the "cause" of the problem.