Barack Obama had to sit there and watch, for four damn years, as Donald Trump sniveled and whined and lied and sold out the American people. Obama had to watch as Trump and the entire Republican Party gleefully dismantled Obama-era successes. Obama had to watch as Trump – forever Hector Projector – accused him of “spying” and claimed that Obama should be in jail. There were questions about whether Obama should have been reacting in real time to all of Trump’s bullsh-t, whether Obama should have challenged him more often. I don’t have an answer for that, because I feel both ways – it would have been nice to hear from Obama more often in the past four years, but I also know that it’s not his responsibility to save us from ourselves.
All that being said, I’ve enjoyed these final weeks of the campaign cycle if only for Obama’s involvement. Obama has been an enthusiastic and hilarious surrogate for his former vice president, and Obama clearly has speechwriters working with him on a daily basis, because Barry isn’t giving the same old stump speech in every location. He riffs on a daily basis about whatever crazy sh-t Trump has said that day, and I am loving every minute of it. No matter what happens, I adore the fact that Obama has crashed the final weeks of the election to needle and mock Trump constantly. It’s a beautiful thing.
Here’s Barry talking about Trump’s super-spreader tour and how Trump will fire Fauci.
Here’s Barry talking about how Baby Fists is a dictator.
I love him so much. *sob*
Anyway, I love all of these photos of our Forever POTUS.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
Not sure how I am going to make it today but I sure am comforted to know i am on the same side as Barack.
@Stacy Dresden … Pour yourself a nice glass of wine when the returns start coming in. That’s my plan of survival tonight. 🙂
Trump is over-valued at two bits. Please let this be over soon. And go vote if you haven’t already.
He owes us nothing, and is out here doing some serious heavy lifting for this campaign. I will forever be grateful.
Also, did everyone see the video of him sinking a three pointer? “That’s what I do!”
He lives in this country and has two children-he’s just as invested in our future as the rest of us.
Yes and he did his part. It’s not his job to save the country from itself. We made our racism bed and we have to lie in it.
I saw the three pointer…amazing!
The three-pointer!!! Cold as ice. I had seen it already on the web, my husband had not when it was on some show or other (I can’t remember which one) and when the shot sank, he said, “wow!” then Obama pulls down his mask and says “THAT’S WHAT I DO!!” and my husband’s MIND WAS BLOWN!! He said “DID YOU SEE THAT??!!” and rewound it about 9 times. We love you, Michelle, your girls, and the whole fam, Barry!! You were too good for us and we thank you for your service.
Won’t it be glorious when Trump can’t order up Air Force One anymore for his Nazi rallies? Yes, that will be glorious. He’s too cheap/broke to pay for them himself and I can’t imagine any billionaire or Republican PAC offering to underwrite them after he loses.
Ann- so true. And don’t forget, without campaign money, there is no money to pay folks to attend either. And who’ll pay for security, venues and transportation? He can’t even afford return bus tickets right now.
His campaign is supposed to reimburse the government for using Air Force One to go to those rallies. Let’s see if that happens.
His campaign still hasn’t reimbursed police departments for the 2016 rallies.
It feels like he was our president so, so long ago. I miss the stable feeling the US had when he was in office. I’m not sure Joe is all there, but maybe Obama will be his ghost president, so to speak. I’m terrified to see the results and the battle over counting ballots, etc., if it doesn’t go the way the orange blob thinks it should.
Biden is “all there,” his speeches are full of substance and policies and talking about “wonky” policy stuff, and what his plans are for America’s future. His speeches aren’t whiney “oh poor meeeeeeeeeee” like that dumpster fire sitting in the white house, I think Biden will be fine. 🙂
I have been joyfully watching Obama’s speeches. He really seems like he’s having fun with this whole thing.
I keep thinking about how trump hired an actor/impersonator of President Obama so he could “fire” him- like a kid playing psychotic dress up.
And how much President Obama lives rent free in his head.
How much trump HATES that this black man, who he once said about “guys like *that* don’t get to tell guys like us (rich white men) what to do” (paraphrasing, pre-presidency).
And i love that President Obama is just poking at him.
And if trump replies, his racist base might love it, but it doesn’t help him in the election. He isn’t running against President Obama, or Secretary of State/Senator Clinton either.
People not in his cult are going to think he’s cracked out, which is fine, b/c he is.
I am so worried. When i get off work i am going to have dinner, take a sleeping pill and wake up tomorrow to what i hope is a better world.
You just know ANYTHING Obama says will trigger Patient Orange. I wouldn’t call Dump a two bit dictator he’s more like ‘a King in his own bathtub’.
I’m not a trump supporter but I can’t deal with people who think Obama was the be all end all potus. He wasn’t a good president, he was just charming.
NOT today, Satan!!!!!
Lmao antipodean! That’s all that needs to be said!!
LOL Antipodean!!
Amen!
I’d love to see how you define “good”. Cause we have a radioactive dumpster fire in the White House right now. And the millions of people who have health care now would probably disagree with you.
Peeps starting a paragraph with “I’m not a Trump supporter, but…” tells me all I need to know about them. I’ve seen that same exact line tons on Twitter and it’s trolling 101.
The keyword is “but”.
Oh puhleeezzzze….the White House is going to have to be disinfected and fumigated and a shaman is going to have to be brought in to do a complete smudging before that place is cleansed of all the evil energy.
Ok sure Melania or is it Ivanka. You think this rotten mango did more? Also did you hear about this little thing called Obamacare? The very one that Rotten Mango is trying to screw people over with?
What is this amazing backlighting of Kamala and now Obama??? Super flattering light and beautiful images.
Petition for there to be a Celebitchy chat room for tonight so we can all drink wine and vent live! I’ve got group chats with my friends going on but Lord knows that’s still not enough for this particular situation.
We’re doing an Open Post, it will be published this afternoon!
Yay!!! I was going to ask about that.
oh awesome, thank you!
OMG YES PLEASE
It’s been so much fun to watch him over the last few weeks. I love how it seems the Biden campaign was like, “it is TIME….TIME to release…..THE OBAMA!” He’s just killing it and I think part of it is because this is all stuff he has been dying to say for four years and now he’s just blasting Trump with it.
Team Obama.
I laugh at how much real estate he takes up in cheeto’s brain. “Oh the afternoon sun is coming through the window, it’s Obama’s fault, it’s Obama’s fault that my hamberder is cold, is Obama in my microwave spying on me? Is Obama in the room with me right now? Did he steal that pillow that I got from that MyPillow guy? What’s that guy’s name again? I can’t find it, so Obama must have it!”.
😳
LOL! Lordt, I needed that laugh right now.
VOTE BLUE!
I think after 8 years in office, Obama deserved a nice, long break from all things relating to politics. Even if he had reacted to things more often during Trump’s presidency, what purpose would that have served? Pete Souza, his official photographer, did the job nicely for him with all his wonderfully barbed Instagram posts and even released a book documenting all of them called Shade. For the most part, former living presidents, especially the direct predecessor, tend to keep quiet once they leave office. I realize Trump is not a normal president but I just don’t think Obama wanted to spend that much energy denouncing Trump, everyone was already doing it for him. He was too busy writing his memoirs (which I’m so excited to read!).
It’s been great seeing him campaign alongside Joe though these last few weeks though.
I agree. Obama has been so good about doing things the proper way throughout his time as president and post presidency that I supported him trying to stay out of the focus of Trump’s presidency these 4 yrs. It’s appropriate for him to campaign for Biden and speak out against Trump now, but would not have been fruitful prior, except to make some of us feel better.
Love you Barry O.! Joe – Kamala 2020!
Taking a sleeping pill and hoping I wake up to a brand new day.