The Most Divisive President in Modern History Isn’t Donald Trump, It’s Barack Obama

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He could’ve united America—but instead, he tore it apart. In this episode:

• Why Barack Obama’s legacy is division, not hope or change
• How his administration weaponized race and identity politics to fracture the country
• The foreign policy disasters he left behind—from Libya’s collapse to the rise of ISIS
• How the media built and protected a political illusion that still shapes Washington today
• And why Obama’s “shadow presidency” continues to steer the Biden White House

More than a decade later, we’re still living with the fallout.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
The most divisive president in my lifetime, without a doubt,
and I want to talk about the gift that keeps
on giving. He still divide in this country. Barack Obama. Oh,
I know you're going to oh live those as Donald Trump,
but look look at how he talks for it is. Yeah,
I don't like it either. I don't like the way

(00:37):
he speaks. But you're got to compare him to Barack Obama.
Barack Obama, who could have really done a lot, could
have really done a lot. And I got to hand
it to the Democratic machine and how they disguised him.

(01:00):
It really hid who he was. Again, go back in time,
probably we talk about an empty suit. Well, we were
talking about Mandani and New York City right now, I've
never done anything at it anything his entire life. Going
to be the next New York City mayor? Right, Barack Obama? Yeah,
he was a United States senator. What did he do beforehand?

(01:22):
Community organizer professor. I mean, come on, come on now,
everything okay, the entire paper trail of not really accomplishing,
not really doing a damn thing. I never forget, never forget.
I would think it was it was Tom Brokeaw and

(01:43):
I don't know who he was talking maybe Charlie Rose.
And they were commenting. They were commenting after Barack Obama,
how he after he won the election, and how he
was walking around on the stage. They sensed it too,
something's off he walking around on that stage and his conduct,

(02:06):
and they babasically. It's like he was watching the people
watching him. He had quite the team, like the team
of handles. I mean, they put an operation into place,
and that same exact operation, for the most part, came
back into play when when Joe Biden got into office,

(02:32):
I would you know any people he said, Oh, he's
a first black. I'm like, what did he accomplish? Can
you can you name something positive at all outside of you?
If you want to call it break in the color barrier,
whatever you want to call it. Again, I don't you know,
I never look at people that. That's not something that
I even you know, talk about. It's important to some

(02:54):
people it's not important to me. What one thing? Can
you can you name something? We go We got Osama
bin Laden, Seal Team six Scott, Osama bin Laden. Okay, congratulations.
You want to give him credit that Okay, give him
that one. Well, you know what, I'll let you give
that one. Can you name for me anything on the
legislative front? Obamacare? You know what's good about that massive disaster? Anything?

(03:24):
Give me something, Give me something on the foreign policy front,
as a matter of fact, anything at all. Here's a
flipping wrecking ball around the globe. Wrecking ball. Okay, not
to say that George W. Bush wasn't a wrecking ball,
but so is Obama. So was Obama? Obama come, oh

(03:47):
my god, freaking takes out destroys Libya. Libya was the
had the highest per capita GDP in all of Africa.
Wreck that destroyed that country. Sh got open air slave
markets there right now? Oh Siria, what happened there? Rise eyes?
I would go right on down the list, Bengu. I mean,

(04:09):
just one thing after one, disaster after another. Not to
mention the way he used race, the type of damage
that he caused this nation. Again, you really, I mean it, really,

(04:31):
it really kicked in a high gear under him. You go,
you know, police were kind of sacri sent posts nine
to eleven. Even through all of George W. Bush's years
that went away. Oh you remember remember there was that
Remember the beer summit that took place because the incident

(04:55):
at Harvard Trayvon Martin. Oh, I tried to I know,
the white guy racist attack, no, no, everything, everything. He
turned Americans against one another. It's just you think race.

(05:23):
You think the race relations got better under Obama. He
didn't do anything to heal this country. You talk about
it's almost as if he wanted to go back. It
was given by designers politics. Let's rip open old wounds.
Let's let's pick at scabs of the past because again

(05:45):
it suited their needs. So again you want to do
a change my mind moment again? Second time I did
this today on the podcast. Uh, most divisive president my
lifetime is Barack Obama. And you know what, he's still
working hard at it. He is still working hard at it.
He's still working behind the scenes. You watch them, You

(06:07):
watch them in the statements that he makes and how
he operates. Watch Dog on Mall Street dot Com