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Surprise, surprise—Barack Obama crawls out of the woodwork to sling mud at Trump and stoke racial fires, scolding Hispanic voters for daring to prioritize their wallets over his progressive sermonizing.
The former president, ever the sanctimonious lecturer, took to Marc Maron’s podcast Monday to chastise Latinos who backed Trump in 2024 over inflation concerns, claiming the nation’s soul is on trial under the 47th president.
"It was easy, I think, to say, well, yeah, I'm a progressive. But it didn't really cost us anything. We could take positions on things that we thought were correct, but they were never really tested," Obama told Maron.
"We're being tested right now," he continued. "I think people – and that includes young people – understand there are consequences to the choices that we're making. If you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. If you are a Hispanic man, and you're frustrated about inflation and so you decided, eh, you know what, all that rhetoric about Trump doesn't matter, I'm just mad about inflation. And now, your sons are being stopped in LA because they look Latino. That's a test."
The former president doubled down, suggesting the country needs a wake-up call.
"There's some clarity that's coming about right now that I wish it'd be great if we weren't tested this way, but you know what, we probably need to be shaken out of our complacency anyway," Obama said.
Echoing the same tired talking points in June, Obama told historian Heather Cox Richardson that liberals "felt comfortable in their righteousness" during his presidency.
"You could be as progressive and socially conscious as you wanted, and you did not have to pay a price," he said in Connecticut. "You could still make a lot of money. You could still hang out in Aspen and Milan and travel and have a house in the Hamptons and still think of yourself as a progressive."
Obama didn’t stop there, warning that standing firm might mean sacrifices.
"You might lose some of your donors if you’re a university and if you’re a law firm, your billings might drop a little bit, which means you cannot remodel that kitchen in your house in the Hamptons this summer," he said.
Maron, wrapping up his 16-year podcast WTF with Marc Maron, admitted to CNN in August, "I don’t want to chase the cultural conversation through clickbait and garbage. You know, I don’t want to be tethered.”
Obama, his final guest, responded to Maron’s viral quip that liberals "annoyed America into fascism" by electing Trump, noting he’d warned years ago that progressives shouldn’t act like scolds "all the time."
Instead of addressing real economic pain, Obama would rather paint Trump as the villain and Latinos as collateral damage in his moral crusade. Same old Obama, same old divisive playbook.
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