Obama Goes After Trump in Appearance at Hamilton College: ‘Imagine if I Had Done Any of This’
“That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans”
Former President Obama went after Donald Trump in his typical haughty fashion during an appearance at Hamilton College this week. Citing some of the recent actions of the Trump administration, a hypocritical Obama wondered what would have happened if he had done such things.
Obama clearly thinks no one remembers certain details of his presidency.
NBC News reports:
Former President Barack Obama said he is “deeply concerned” with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the Republican Party for not pushing back on them…
Obama said he’s more troubled by a White House that takes aim at law firms that represent ideas or parties that its occupants disagree with, and that the administration has punished media outlets. Trump has signed executive orders penalizing major law firms and lawyers, prompting outrage within the legal community. The White House has also barred The Associated Press from coverage over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
“That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans,” he said.
Obama suggested that Republicans would be outraged if he had done similar things as president.
“Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps,” he said, adding, “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me or a whole bunch of my predecessors.”
Watch the clip below. You can tell Obama is angry because he does that old ‘if, if, if, if, if’ thing as he begins speaking.
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed… pic.twitter.com/htecKDCbyi
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 4, 2025
People on Twitter/X had some reminders for Obama.
Obama’s DOJ and Eric Holder only spied on then-Fox correspondent James Rosen, secretly seized AP phone records and rejected more FOIA requests than any administration in history.
Otherwise, great post. https://t.co/xC2BESdu5O
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 5, 2025
He sued nuns, sent the IRS after conservative book groups, and droned an American citizen for saying the same things pro Hamas students are saying on college campuses today. https://t.co/T2xWw6r78X
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 5, 2025
"Imagine if I had pulled @FoxNews' credentials from the White House press corps…" Um, @BarackObama, you illegally spied on @JamesRosenTV's email to try to find his sources. I'd say that's worse than not letting them have a seat in the briefing room. https://t.co/TKfEMl5dZX
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) April 5, 2025
Obama DID try and bar Fox News from a WH Press Pool. And he DID use the IRS to go after Tea Party organizations who campaigned against ObamaCare. Not to mention, he used the FBI to spy on Trump.
In what alternate reality do these people operate in? https://t.co/4dlB4GuFTC
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) April 5, 2025
Imagine if the FBI showed up at your house to raid your property, imagine if they persecuted you for your beliefs and tried to jail you.
You changed the rules.
President Trump is playing the game that you set up. https://t.co/JpzBKeqAFh
— Katie Miller (@katierosemiller) April 5, 2025
He literally ordered the murder of an American citizen with a drone strike. https://t.co/a9XYSOW7ks
— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) April 5, 2025
You refused to arm Ukraine, and gave Putin the Crimea. Your IRS persecuted Jewish nonprofits. You demonized Jews for opposing the give-Iran-nukes deal. Antisemitic students didn't have to occupy campus buildings because you were and are backing them. https://t.co/I6lvVWF3G0
— Sam Schulman (@Sam_Schulman) April 5, 2025
Classic Obama
Can’t resist making everything about himself
The guy has no clue how he sounds to people who aren’t obsessed with him as he is https://t.co/XP3sAJqnQM
— Matt Gorman (@mattsgorman) April 5, 2025
No need to imagine—Obama did something worse than any president in history. He used the full weight of the federal government to orchestrate a smear campaign framing his successor as a Russian agent. It remains the most disgraceful abuse of power in modern American politics. https://t.co/X5EIPwZwGY
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 5, 2025
When Obama was president, former President George W. Bush quietly faded into the background and kept silent. We all should have known Obama would never be as gracious when the time came.
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Everyone in that audience now has skin in the game as they have purchased shares in the Brooklyn Bridge Company.
Obama: Imagine if I had done this?
Paula: I cannot imagine you doing anything except run your mouth.
If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Who listens to this bold-faced LIAR anymore???
My plan disappeared, and I was forced in a minority owned clinic for 4+ years, run by incompetents.
“Illegal aliens won’t be subsidized and.your taxes won’t go up — not one dime.”
one THIN dime…over and over and over again. He was lying to us then, and he is still running that lying mouth to us now. He is despicable.
“In the first year of my Presidency I will cut the deficit in half” – Also Obama
That’s Obama, smug and smarmy. If had had done ‘any of this’ the Dems would have been overjoyed knelt and worshipped his narrow red liberal arse. Obama, ‘change has come to America’ and proceeded to do so. Trump has promised to change America back to America.
I want to know Obama’s role in the Biden shadow government scheme. This needs to be fully exposed and prosecuted.
His role, up to his eyeballs I’ll bet.
This how a delusional, self righteous, egotistical, narcissistic, totalitarian, community organizer remembers things.
ex-Presidents should be seen and not heard.
Forget that.
Obama should neither be seen or heard.
It used to be that way. They went home and lived out their lives in relative obscurity.
Yes. They used to join boards of directors, give speechs for big bucks, and write autobiographies. It changed with Carter. He got involved in “international relations” being as clueless out of office as in it. Clinton too with his grifting. Obama with his. Trump stayed involved because of lawfare against him and his desire for revenge. The Bushes stayed pretty much away as did Ford.
Harry Truman drove home and moved back into the home of his parents and upbringing in Independence MO. He would despise Obama.
I love those old news photos showing Harry and Bess getting into their Chrysler and driving off the grounds of the White House.
No pump. No ceremony. No 47 car motorcade.
Presidents are no longer allowed to drive. There is too much trappings of a monarchy associated with presidents. We should take a long hard look at eliminating much of it.
Harry, in spite of being a Democrat, has always been one of my heroes.
There are certainly a lot of interesting stories attached to him.
Profession as a haberdasher of all things.
Elected Captain of his WW1 company.
The buck stops here sign.
Fired McArthur for insubordination,
Authorized dropping nuclear weapons to avoid the millions of deaths that would
have resulted from invading Japan
Holding up the newspaper with the Dewey defeats Truman headline
On the negative side he was the product of a democratic city machine,
Jug ears did all this and more it was just the opposite direction.
Once a self centered a-hole, always a self centered…you know.
Personally rewriting his own history.
That SOB did all that and much more.
Just being the mommas jeans jackass that he is.
At the Lie Barry…..
Stole his black identity in the fiction he created of himself, as a child of the civil rights movement.
His greatest worshippers are white progressives who read the book and believed every word.
His reputation has nowhere to go but down. The disdain he has for America and for the system that gave him wealth and power will be his sad legacy. And Trump, of course, who he claimed would NEVER be president, but who will have a more lasting effect as a great American. Maybe thanks are therefore in order.
Obama told me that my inexpensive, high-deductible, catastrophic insurance plan wasn’t good enough for me, so he had it eliminated and replaced by a health maintenance plan that cost 7 times as much. On a plus note, I should be thanking him because I was prevented paying $800/yr for the first plan, and decided not to pay $5000/yr for the second, so in effect he bought me a couple of nice cars. That worked out as well as Klinton’s 1 gun a month plan, though after a couple of years I started to run short of both disposable money in that area and room in the Safe.
So tired of this narcissist-incompetent-dunce-demagogue. Always so insufferably dishonest, arrogant, self-reverential and hypocritical.
Obama’s Stanford Internet Observatory censorship scheme bundled with the FBI and social media to shadow ban, silence and muzzle his political opponents.
Obama Encourages Technocratic Censorship of His Political Enemies.
https://archive.org/details/obama-talks-about-disinformation
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Obama said, “Freedom of speech is at the heart of every democratic society” and branded himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” but added that the First Amendment does not apply to social media companies.
“The First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook and Twitter,” Obama said, calling for content moderation and censorship on social media.
“While content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it doesn’t go far enough,” said Obama.
If Obama had pulled Fox News’s press credentials the celebration would be ongoing to this day by the entirety of the left. Including every single other news agency in the world.
I’m pretty sure they actually called for lawfare against Fox news during Obama’s first term.
The ‘other foot’ analysis is what I go by.
Imagine if Hillary Clinton had called the GA sec of state and asked him to find votes .
Imagine if Biden had been found liable for fraud in 3 different cases.
Imagine if Biden ha been found liable for assaulting a woman and two other women testified in that trial that he had tried to assault them.
Imagine if Biden ha lied a a gazillion times about a rigged election with ZERO evidence and a bunch of lefty whack jobs had invaded the Capitol with the intention of interfering with the electoral vote. And then biden pardoned all these assholes.
Can you imagine the redhat meltdown ? I can
Can you imagine if a house dropped on your head? I can.
Seems we agree on something for once. Could you imagine if they were properly indicted for half of the shit they did?
Hillary would have another fainting spell and Biden would mumble and trip upstairs. Both would be dropped for being too feeble to stand trial.
why didn’t Trump indict Hillary? Can you explain that?
Why has Biden NEVER been indicted in his long career? Why isn’t Trump indicting him now?
Why was Obama never indicted?
WHO would prosecute them? And what jury would convict them? Throw millions away on a prosecution, if it could be had, and nothing would come of it, except media pointing out that Trump wasted millions on poor innocent Hillary, obama and Biden.
As noted by those folks on X no ‘imagine’ is required because those things actually happened, and you loons cheered.
You are the poster child for a third term abortion that survived.
How does it feel to know that your cult is why there is Trump?
what alleged cult am I in and who is its leader? LAFFRIOT
It’s right there in the bottom corner of your checks, idiot,.
Does he want to talk about his 3rd term DOJ led by his finger for SCOTUS that prosecuted lawyers representing Trump? What about their censorship memoranda to.public social media domains?
Does he want to talk about the law fare directly against Trump at the end of Obama’s term behind closed doors then in the banana republic courts?
Does he want to talk about Media Matters and his WH cozy with them?
Seems we don’t have to imagine anything. He got away with all of it.
I wish I never had to see or hear him again. And his trashy looking mud hut library in Chicago.
“Imagine if I had done any of this”,..if you only had Hillary would have won in ’16,..
What Obama did is the reason a lot of what Trump is doing has to be done.
Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure.