We keep hearing about splits in the Republican ranks between those who have sold their souls to the extremist arm of the party loyal to Trumpism, embodying white supremacist and anti-democratic values, and those more traditional Republicans who insist on sharply differentiating the ideology of conservativism from Trumpism. The founders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project…
Last Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave his much-anticipated endorsement of his former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy. The endorsement was expected, of course, despite the wait Obama imposed, which seemed likely attributable to his preference to time his speech in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ own endorsement of Biden, creating a crescendo effect….
Former President Barack Obama received huge amounts of publicity last week when he went public with his criticisms of President Donald Trump. It marked the first time he has gotten involved in political issues since he left the Oval Office in January of 2017. And now his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, has announced…
Former President Barack Obama has kept kept out of the spotlight since leaving office, but he will soon start campaigning to help Democrats in November’s midterm elections. He is eager to help his party take back control of the House of Representatives, help vulnerable Senate incumbents win, and help state parties win legislative races in…
Former President Barack Obama summed up what made the late John McCain an all-time American hero in a moving tribute after the Senator from Arizona passed away on Saturday.
It’s no surprise that Trump doesn’t want to release a photograph of him making it more likely, not less, for more tragedies like Parkland to happen in the future.
By many measures, George W. Bush could’ve gone down as one of America’s worst presidents. But Trump’s presidency has seemingly saved him from this fate.
“This is our life now. This is our nightly news now about the American presidency.”
Trump has spent one-third of his short presidency at one of his ritzy country clubs and more than a quarter of his time on a golf course.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacked Obama for daring to take credit for the depression that he avoided and claimed that Trump deserves all the credit for an economy that is slowing down.
Trump issued a permit in March for Keystone XL’s construction – something that former President Barack Obama and other environmental activists had warned could do more harm than good.
The Fox News survey is a clear indication that the Republican Party’s problems aren’t limited to Roy Moore’s collapsing candidacy – it’s far greater than that.
Trump seems to believe – or at least want you to believe – that this rosy economic picture came out of nowhere, thanks to him.
Instead of America being aligned with nearly 200 nations across the globe, the United States now stands only with Syria.
Former President Obama didn’t need to give some long-winded explanation of why Trump is failing as president. He did it in just two sentences
“If you have to win a campaign by dividing people, you’re not gonna be able to govern them. You won’t be able to unite them later if that’s how you start.”
While Barack Obama’s name won’t be on a ballot ever again, his reemergence into the political arena on Thursday reminded America how much better we can do than Donald Trump.
If Trump can’t properly honor U.S. soldiers when they make the ultimate sacrifice for this country, it’s likely he will be just as casual and reckless when deciding to send them into harm’s way.
Just when we thought the bar couldn’t sink any lower for this president, Donald Trump rises to the occasion and proves us all wrong.
Either the businessman president doesn’t understand basic economics or he is intentionally misleading the American public.
On Wednesday, one federal judge reminded Donald Trump that hating Barack Obama is not a good enough reason to ignore key environmental protections.
Repeat after me: This is not about improving health care in America or making your life better. It’s an effort to tarnish the legacy of America’s first African American president.
Trump’s reckless determination to tear up the legacy of his far superior predecessor – Barack Obama – may make him feel better, but it’s putting actual lives at risk.
New census data from Obama’s final year in office showed that the former president raised median household incomes, lowered poverty and decreased the number of Americans without health insurance.
It is easy to see why Trump will be going to Missouri for his next rally, as his supporters in the state have voiced a demand that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama be jailed.
Trump cannot hide from his long history of rhetoric in which he repeatedly attacked former President Obama for doing something he, too, has now done as president.
Biographer David Maraniss has a great idea. The author is urging all five living former presidents to issue a joint statement calling on racist Donald Trump to resign.
Though the majority of Americans do not condone the racially driven terrorism we saw in Charlottesville this weekend, this is increasingly what America is becoming with Donald Trump in the White House.
Obama’s message of love and unity – and his clear suggestion that today’s violence was racially motivated – stood in stark contrast to Trump’s remarks.
After eight years of an administration who took these issues seriously, we now have a president who loses his cool at the slightest provocation.
Facts are facts: Barack Obama was a reassuring adult in an increasingly dangerous world, and Donald Trump is a man-sized toddler pushing the world closer to nuclear war.
Six European officials who had interactions with Trump and his White House describe the president as a threat to global security who is obsessed with Obama.
“It’s like a guy built a house and sold it to someone, and that person walked in and turned the lights on is like, ‘Look at the house I built.'”
In 2013, then President Obama wrote a beautiful essay about Lincoln, the White House, and the Gettysburg Address. Reading Obama’s words today reminds everyone that the same piece of living history that previous presidents were in awe of is the same place that classless Trump called a dump.
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their effort to combat Republican election rigging through gerrymandering.
The president’s decision to give such a disturbing rant in front of preteen boys would be shocking if anybody but Trump was delivering the ramble.
The former president reminded us of that, sometimes, we should put politics aside. In doing so, Obama made the country miss him even more than we already did.
After six months of failed policy proposals, unprecedented scandals, and a deteriorating mental state, the Trump train has gone completely off the rails.
The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won’t buy it. The president and Republicans now own health care.
This president can continue to hold campaign rallies and convince himself that those who show up actually represent the vast majority of the country, but they don’t.
Trying to use the popular former president to suppress the vote won’t discourage Democrats in Georgia – it’ll only motivate them more.
Michigan Wolverines Head Coach Jim Harbaugh has invited Barack and Michelle Obama to be honorary football captains during the 2017 season.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spent eight years doing nothing but criticizing and complaining about former President Obama’s global leadership, but when asked if American leadership was better under Obama, McCain admitted that it was.
President Obama released a statement after Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement that showed America what real vision and leadership look like.
Even when Barack Obama isn’t in the White House, Republicans in Congress are trying to bring him down.
It will be no surprise that when actual numbers and clear policy plans do come they will heavily favor the most affluent and corporate interests over middle class and financially poor Americans.
Right when you might have been starting to really lose faith in your fellow citizens, by a majority of voters would rather have Barack Obama than Donald Trump as their President overall.
After bombing two countries, provoking North Korea, and losing an aircraft carrier, the Trump administration is now picking a fight with Iran.
Even if Trump did have 50 percent approval, Obama’s stood at 62 percent approval on April 18, 2009, the same point in his presidency.
“The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!”
Joe Wilson was met with a chorus of boos and cries of ‘You lie!’ when he showed up at his town hall and spoke evasively about protecting women
“But these strikes did more than simply punish Mr. Assad and deter future attacks; they have gone a long way to restoring our badly damaged credibility in the world.”
Voters are not being fooled by Donald Trump’s nearly daily barrage of fake news about how he is growing or saving the economy. According to new Quinnipiac University poll, voters are giving former President Obama credit for the economy by a 66%-18% margin.
Trump is publicly rooting for the failure of a law that has helped millions of Americans.
After a winless two months in the White House, perhaps Trump should give Barack Obama a call. He knows a thing or two about winning.
Both Democrats and Republicans are now calling on Devin Nunes to step aside from the Trump-Russia investigation.
Fox News appears to have given up on the bogus wiretapping allegation – leaving Trump with nobody left to cite.
“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command…he used GCHQ” accused Spicer
The reason they want more time? Because evidence to substantiate Trump’s bogus and dangerous claim does not exist.
With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Victor Davis Hanson mocks, “He did manage to lecture Americans about the evils of the Crusades, and promise to lower the seas and cool the planet.”
President Obama’s real feelings about Donald Trump’s wiretap claims have been revealed and they can best be described as an eye roll and a single statement expressing concern for the American people.
Trump tweeted about “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration” but 113 of them were released by President Bush
“For eight years Russia ‘ran over’ President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak!”
Trump said he’d be too busy “working for us” to play golf, but he is too busy playing golf to save his own scandal-ridden administration
“Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble”
President Obama reminded America of what a real president looks like by returning to demolish Trump’s lie that the former president ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Officials in the Obama administration preserved intelligence related to Russia’s connections to the Trump campaign.
“I think President Obama’s behind it, because his people are certainly behind it.”
The administration also plans to go after EPA climate programs put into place during Obama’s time in the White House.
“Barack Obama has completed his second term as President of the United States on January 21, why not hire him as President for France?”
It’s just the latest move in Donald Trump’s quest to turn back the clock on civil rights in America.
Santorum claimed “President Obama said and did nothing in response to rising anti-Semitism” but in fact, Obama spoke out strongly against it
Perhaps the new president should finish reading his job description instead of jetting off to Florida every weekend.
The Pew Research Center poll never showed Barack Obama’s approval rating dropping this low.
The swipe comes after Trump spent the weekend compromising America’s security by turning an unexpected national security challenge into “dinner theater.”
The new data comes days after Trump took aim at the polls, calling them “fake news” if they find that he or his policies are unpopular.
For years, the current president questioned Obama’s birthplace and legitimacy as a U.S. president. The idea that Obama likes him is a foolish one.
James Madison said representatives should be able to “withstand the temporary delusion” to “give time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.”
Trump called Turnbull, berated him on an agreement he hadn’t even studied yet, then abruptly hung up on him 25 minutes into a 60-minute call
The worst fear of President Trump and his party has come true. Former President Obama has returned to the public eye to encourage protesters to exercise their constitutional right to assemble, and he also criticized Trump’s Muslim ban.
Carson can’t possibly imagine why President Obama would think of doing “something of that nature,” something like helping Americans at not cost to anyone.
Looking at both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Mikhail Gorbachev said, “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.”
We will certainly miss President Obama when he officially becomes a private citizen. But the worst part will not be his absence from the White House – it’ll be Donald Trump’s presence.
“I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him.”
There is a clear difference between the way Americans look at the current president and the incoming president, and it doesn’t bode well for Trump.
2016 marks the seventh straight year of gains for an industry that was on the verge of collapse when Obama took office.
Even in areas they express confidence, “Americans are far less confident in Trump than they were in his predecessors, when comparisons are available.”
President Obama took the plan out of commission and described it “not only as out-of-date but also an inefficient waste of resources.”
Trump’s response suggests that holding Russia accountable for its unprecedented election meddling isn’t that high on his list of priorities.
“These actions…are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior.”
Obama has protected more federal land and water than any single previous president.
Before the Trump campaign was even an idea, the economy was growing, the stock market was soaring, and deficits were falling.
“The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.”
Perhaps the worst blow of all for Trump is that “Fifty percent of Democrats named Obama as most admired, compared with 34% of Republicans choosing Trump.”
“This policy has brought the current US administration…into a dead end. We hope the new administration will be more sagacious.”
“The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113.7, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! Thanks Donald!”
Not only is the president looking to punish Russia for interfering in the U.S. electoral process, but he’s hoping to do it in a way that Trump can’t undo.
Trump seems intent on following in the footsteps, not of our most successful modern president, Barack H. Obama, but rather the least, George W. Bush