Obama breaks silence on 2nd Trump presidency: "Imagine if I had done this!”

Should Obama have wielded power more forcefully from 2009-2017?


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Some of these comments are ridiculous. We don't want any President behaving like how Trump is, no matter what their policies are.
That's just dudes keeping up Bozo the Clown personas. To deflect from backing Trump.

They dont believe a word of the shyt, but painted themselves into a corner already and have to continue the act.
 

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Well guess what?

Trump just set the new standard

Do you think we going back when another Republican is at the helm?
That's the point of everyone pushing back now. We still have the opportunity for the Judicial and Legislative Branches to fight against these unconstitutional policies.
 

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Trump is proving that the White House can inject fear in powerful sectors of society.

And are we forgetting that people are trying to kill him? He was nearly killed last year!

In the aftermath of the biggest crash since 1929, Obama being more FDR than Bill Clinton wouldn’t have gotten him killed
They aren’t treated the same .

I can point to many examples where trump gets treated with kid gloves and a dem gets hammered for the same thing , now add in that Obama is black .

Al green was censured for speaking out during a trump state of the union speech and even ten Dems voted for it iirc

Lauren boebert and mtg were yelling and calling Biden a liar during a state of the union speech . No one said a word .

If Biden this year before leaving office did what trump did on jan6th 2021 , he’d be in prison right now .

If Obama did what trump is doing he would have been dealt with immediately.
 
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People aren't understanding what Obama is saying or why he is saying it to push their own narrative based on a excerpt from a larger speech. He's warning about how the normalization of authoritarian behavior from the executive branch threatens the foundational principles of American democracy. He is pointing out that Trump is actively weaponizing the federal government against critics, institutions, and the free press in ways that would've sparked national outrage if done by any previous president, especially a Black one.

His comments are trying to draw attention to the erosion of legal and democratic accountability that allows Trump to act with impunity. It's a warning about how the system is being stress-tested, and far too many people are letting it happen.

Dudes in here talking about M4A and reparations fundamentally misunderstands the difference between executive power and legislative governance. Trump is using executive threats and the machinery of government to punish enemies and protect himself legally. That's *not* policy-making, that's authoritarianism.

Obama couldn't just "crash out" and give us M4A or reparations, because those actually require laws passed through Congress. You can't executive-order your way to universal healthcare or generational wealth redistribution.

If Obama had tried even a fraction of what Trump's doing now he would've been impeached in a week, and everyone pretending otherwise knows it. Stop confusing bluster and lawlessness with policy delivery.

Trump is proving that the White House can inject fear in powerful sectors of society.

And are we forgetting that people are trying to kill him? He was nearly killed last year!

In the aftermath of the biggest crash since 1929, Obama being more FDR than Bill Clinton wouldn’t have gotten him killed
Trump isn't "injecting fear" into powerful sectors of society, he's testing how much authoritarian behavior elites will tolerate when it's in service of their tax cuts, deregulation, or judicial appointments. The fact that major corporations, law firms, and media institutions *aren't* mounting serious resistance to his attacks on the rule of law, civil liberties, or dissent shows the opposite of fear, it shows complicity.
 

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Obama couldn't even dap his wife up without it being called a "terrorist fist jab".
And remember the Tan suit?


How about all the birtherism and conspiracies that catapulted Trump to the oval office? Yall remember that?



Thats all On Code now family. Nyehh????

When Obama put his feet on his own desk, cacs were like “how dare that monkey ass nikka put his filthy toes on our desk”. Pretending that Trump doesn’t benefit from being white and that Obama wouldn’t have gotten massacred pulling any of Trump’s bullshyt as a black man is just flat out being a liar….being completely full of shyt.
 

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Trump is proving that the White House can inject fear in powerful sectors of society.

And are we forgetting that people are trying to kill him? He was nearly killed last year!

In the aftermath of the biggest crash since 1929, Obama being more FDR than Bill Clinton wouldn’t have gotten him killed
ehhh.. theater
 

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There is always pressure on the first.

We all saw Eric Adams and his entire administration get accused/charged with all types of corruption. Viewed as just another sleazy politician.

Picture if Mayor David Dinkins had moved like that.

Unless you fell out of the sky, and werent raised by Black parents, this shouldnt need to be explained to you.

Some of these brehs never got the “you can’t do what they do” speech
 
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