Former President Barack Obama blasted the Trump administration Friday during his speech at the funeral of Jesse Jackson in Chicago. Without naming Donald Trump by name, he said, “every day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions.”

Jackson died last month at the age of 84 after a long battle with the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy, his family said in a statement. Jackson had been a reverend, a presidential candidate, and a civil rights leader who was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis with Dr. Martin Luther King when he was shot and killed in 1968. 

The funeral was also attended by two other former Democratic presidents, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton. 

“Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible,” Obama said. “Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others. And that some don’t even count at all. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength,” adding that “it’s hard to hope in those moments,” according to The Hill.

“But this man, Rev. Jesse Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope,” Obama said. 

Joe Biden, who had been a two-term vice president under Obama and a one-term president, also used the occasion to score political points against Trump. 

“We got an administration that doesn’t share any of the values that we have, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating a little bit,” Biden said, adding that Jackson “knew who we were at our best, that he simply refused to let us off the hook as a party, as a nation, or as individuals.”

Clinton also spoke, but made no reference to President Trump. 

Trump has often criticized Biden and Obama.

“Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him,” Trump wrote on Truth Social upon Jackson’s death last month. “He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand. He loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed!”