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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

[Redleg]

1. I am glad to see our fine former President turn up the heat in his unique way

I especially liked his comments about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the aspersions cast at his own wife and other prominent and gifted black women.

[AnnaLee]

2. 2028 ticket

If SCOTUS allows Trump to run again, how about an Obama third run? Is he still popular enough?

[DET]

3. Great!

There is nobody better at galvanizing our side than Barack Obama. I’d love to see him speak up more.

[Trueblue1968]

4. I love Obam