Obama Torches MAGA After Jimmy Kimmel Pulled Off Air

[Jilly_in_VA]

Barack Obama is calling out what he sees as “dangerous” hypocrisy from the White House.

In a post on X, the 44th president slammed ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” cut Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid threats.

Kimmel was suspended after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to withdraw ABC’s broadcasting license during an interview.

“After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” Obama wrote.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-torches-maga-after-jimmy-kimmel-pulled-off-air/

I miss the days when we had a REAL president!

[JCMach1]

1. I love this. Obama needs to put himself out there

As a warning if they try an end run against term limits in 2028.

[YodaMom2]

2. Not that I think he would,

but Obama should troll tRump with threats to run again himself. The likely jacked-up bullshit “interpretation” of the Constitution that the Rs would use to justify it - “the amendment limits a President to two *consecutive terms, it doesn’t apply to non-consecutive terms” - would apply to Obama, as well.

[TheRickles]

3. Obama better watch his step, or he'll be sued for libel/slander/supporting terrorists, etc.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Actions speak louder than a lot of stuff

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Maddowblog-As Trump's abuses worsen, it seems Obama is increasingly fired up and ready to go

With increasing frequency, the former Democratic president is re-entering the political arena in unexpected and unsubtle ways.

In the spring, Barack Obama seemed to dip his toes into the political arena waters.

This week, as he dives in headfirst, I can’t help but get the impression that this guy is fired up and ready to go. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-18T17:23:10.100Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-abuses-worsen-seems-obama-increasingly-fired-ready-go-rcna232178

When thinking about Donald Trump’s most prominent and most vocal Democratic critics, Barack Obama does not immediately come to mind. That, however, is starting to change.....

In September, the former Democratic president seems even more fired up. NBC News reported:

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the spate of political violence that has gripped the country while rebuking President Donald Trump and his allies’ for politicizing the shooting and not doing more to unite the country.

At the Jefferson Educational Society’s global summit in Pennsylvania, the Democrat did not mention Trump by name. He also didn’t have to: Obama drew sharp enough contrasts that were entirely unsubtle.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists 

But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T20:01:20.240Z

.....For good measure, Obama condemned Charlie Kirk’s slaying as “horrific and a tragedy,” and categorically rejected the very idea of political violence, calling it “anathema to what it means to be a democratic country.” He also made it clear that he found some of the late conservative activist’s ideas abhorrent.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning

We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake


I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T20:01:08.560Z

......Just two days before the end of his presidency, Obama hosted a White House press conference in which he said he expected the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to make their own determinations about the nation’s direction — and, by and large, he intended to stay out of it.

Obama acknowledged at the time, however, that there might be exceptions to the rule. “There’s a difference,” the outgoing president explained, “between that normal functioning of politics and certain issues or certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake.”

Nearly nine years later, I can’t help but get the feeling that Obama sees our core values in jeopardy with increasing frequency.

I am so glad that President Obama is getting involved. I love the fact that trump and the MAGA idiots are upset by President Obama making comments and arguments