Trump hits back at Michelle Obama, Andrew Cuomo and John Kasich on Twitter. - The New York Times

President Trump returned fire at several of his political foes — including the former first lady Michelle Obama and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York — after they issued a stinging indictment of his leadership during the first night of the Democratic National Convention.

Facing an onslaught of criticism that his failure to contain the coronavirus had left more than 170,000 Americans dead and millions unemployed, the president took to Twitter, often his preferred medium for sparring, to fight back.

Most extraordinary was his engagement with Mrs. Obama, who used her headlining speech to question his temperament for the office and urged Americans to vote for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “like our lives depend on it.”

“Somebody please explain to @MichelleObama that Donald J. Trump would not be here, in the beautiful White House, if it weren’t for the job done by your husband, Barack Obama,” Mr. Trump, who has generally avoided engaging with Mrs. Obama, tweeted.

He then alluded to Mr. Obama’s decision to wait until April to endorse his onetime running mate. “Biden was merely an afterthought, a good reason for that very late & unenthusiastic endorsement.”

The president also took aim at Mr. Cuomo, who had used his convention speech to decry the Trump administration’s “dysfunctional and incompetent” response to the coronavirus pandemic.”

Mr. Trump called Mr. Cuomo “a horrible Governor” on Twitter and suggested that he was responsible for rising crime, criticized him for taking on the National Rifle Association and charged that he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in New York nursing homes.

The president also lashed out at former Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio, a Republican who endorsed Mr. Biden in a video at the convention. Mr. Kasich, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2016, said he was putting his country ahead of his party in the video.

“John Kasich did a bad job in Ohio, ran for President and was easy to beat, and now went to the other side desperate for relevance,” Mr. Trump tweeted.

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