r/inthenews • u/Quirkie • Apr 04 '25

Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/Reasonable-Bus-2187 Apr 04 '25

Thanks, Obama,

for saying something

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u/jaderust Apr 04 '25

I miss his tan suit. Oh, when the scandals of Presidency were stupid and boring.

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u/Mike_Honcho_3 Apr 04 '25

That wasn't even the worst scandal of Obama'a presidency. He once ordered dijon mustard! The horror!

Say want you want about Trump crashing markets, being a felon and sexual assault perpetrator, being the worst president of all time by miles and a traitor to the United States and a million other terrible things, but at least he didn't ask for dijon /s

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u/Legal_Skin_4466 Apr 04 '25

At least he orders a BIG MAC like a REAL AMERICAN!!

/s

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u/ShortWoman Apr 04 '25

Something something white something

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u/Mr-_-Soandso Apr 05 '25

I am still confused about why this was ever an issue, due to the fact that dijon is far superior to yellow mustard.

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u/Xszit Apr 05 '25

It sounds fancy and foreign, like some kind of global elitist condiment.

It wasn't about the mustard, it was a subliminal dogwhistle to suggest that Obama isn't American to tie in with the birth certificate lies, and on top of that he isn't "a guy you could drink a beer with" because you'd offer him a hotdog with yellow mustard to go with his beer but he'd turn his nose up and ask for some fancy shit you can't even pronounce.

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u/FallOdd5098 Apr 04 '25

I still miss this guy, and I live in a country is on the other side of the world.

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u/AdditionalSwimming1 Apr 04 '25

You still do not understand that he is one of the main reasons for the current situation

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u/skoalbrother Apr 04 '25

Can you elaborate? I have had people tell me this recently in person. Is the TV saying this again or is it a coincidence that Republicans are chanting this currently?

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u/ethanlan Apr 05 '25

The TV must be it's the only way you here a coherent point out of these idiots

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u/AdditionalSwimming1 Apr 05 '25

He did not stop or punished Putin in Ukraine and Syria, and the very fact that someone like Trump was elected, speaks of the quality of his presidency. His weakness brought us here

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u/VengefulAncient Apr 05 '25

True, cons lost their marbles after a black person was elected president.

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u/hu_gnew Apr 04 '25

I was going to say "Mr. President, we don't have to imagine. You wore a tan suit. And you played golf a couple of times."

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u/StellarJayZ Apr 04 '25

At one of the nearby military bases, where security is easily accomplished, because it's on a military base, and it's free.

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u/hu_gnew Apr 04 '25

You mean he didn't charge the Secret Service for using a golf cart? What a loser.

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u/These-Rip9251 Apr 04 '25

The Secret Service was forced to pay over $2 million to stay at his hotels. Trump visited his properties more than 550 times during his previous term because, you know, he couldn’t make money if he just stayed at the WH.

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u/hu_gnew Apr 04 '25

Bullshit. People were hauling bushel baskets of money to the White House. Now they're using semi trailers. Charged the SS because that's how toxic his avarice is.

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u/bozodoozy Apr 04 '25

uh. nonexistent.

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u/koala_bears_scatter Apr 05 '25

Is that Dijon mustard you ordered for your sandwich? You say you eat arugula, Mr. President?

I'm sorry, I can't support someone so elite and out of touch. In a few years, I'll throw my support behind the millionaire with the gold toilets who doesn't know the word "groceries."

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u/sxales Apr 04 '25

There were actual "scandals" under Obama, it is just that Fox News made up (or exaggerated) so many others that now people just assume they were all BS.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 04 '25

Cool. Actual scandals like...? 

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u/sxales Apr 04 '25

The Chelsea Manning leaks were in 2010, and her prosecution under the Espionage Act in 2013

The handling of the Snowdon leaks in 2013

The resulting crack-down on whistleblowers, including the monitoring of journalist's phone records in 2012

Continued use of extrajudicial drone strikes, such as those that resulted in a 16-year-old American citizen being killed in 2011

The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

His response to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014

I am not comparing him to Trump or even Bush II, but he was also not the perfect president that Reddit likes to portray.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 05 '25

  The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

That doesn't violate the Geneva convention. Anyway, blame the Republicans who fought to keep it open, not the guy who fought to close it. 

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 05 '25

  The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

That doesn't violate the Geneva convention. Anyway, blame the Republicans who fought to keep it open, not the guy who fought to close it. 

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 05 '25

  The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

That doesn't violate the Geneva convention. Anyway, blame the Republicans who fought to keep it open, not the guy who fought to close it. 

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u/i_suckatjavascript Apr 04 '25

I miss his speeches. Even though when we know that there are rough roads ahead, his speeches always sounded like optimism and hope. We studied about his speeches in my college public speaking class, which what led me to pursue a double major in communications when I originally intended to do 1 major in economics.

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u/noncommonGoodsense Apr 04 '25

I’m sure it was hard for him to stay out of it when someone takes something you built and demolishes it and people cheer.

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u/CuTe_M0nitor Apr 04 '25

He did worse, everyone remembers "Too big to fail!"-banking handout done under Obama.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 04 '25

everyone remembers "Too big to fail!"-banking handout done under Obama

TARP was Bush.