Few have done more to ensure Donald Trump’s political success, which is good for America
Democrats love Barack Obama, the former president best known for his malignant narcissism and historically inept athleticism. Republicans hate him. Recent reporting suggests that both parties should seriously reconsider their feelings toward the wealthy Martha’s Vineyard resident. That’s because Obama is arguably even more responsible for Donald Trump’s political success than Dr. Jill Biden. The former first lady, possessed by an insatiable lust for power, forced her cognitively impaired husband to launch an ill-fated reelection campaign in 2024 that nearly destroyed the Democratic Party, all but ensuring Trump’s return to office and the restoration of American Greatness. But Dr. Jill has nothing on Obama, who has been doing everything in his power to facilitate Trump’s rise since at least 2011. He is the foundational MAGA warrior. Bless his corrupt liberal heart.
It was Obama who inspired Trump to run for president by ruthlessly mocking the real estate titan at the White House correspondents’ dinner in April 2011. Obama spent a significant portion of his “comedy” routine taking swipes at Trump, who looked on from the audience. “It just kept going and going, and [the president] just kept hammering him,” recalled former Trump adviser Omarosa. “And I thought, ‘Oh, Barack Obama is starting something that I don’t know if he’ll be able to finish.'” Obama was particularly aggrieved by Trump’s relentless quest to uncover the truth about his birth certificate, a matter that has yet to be fully resolved. For Trump, who already loved America enough to want to make it great again, this was the moment that drove him to enter politics. “I think that is the night that he resolve[d] to run for president,” former Trump adviser Roger Stone told PBS in 2016. “I think that he [was] kind of motivated by it. ‘Maybe I’ll just run, maybe I’ll show them all.'”
Years later, Trump’s odds of becoming president would dramatically increase when Obama tapped Hillary Clinton, one of the worst politicians (and least likable human beings) in American history, as his heir apparent. In an earlier instance of poor judgment, Obama had picked Joe Biden as his running mate because, among other reasons, he thought Biden was too old and unambitious to consider running for president again. “Biden never forgave Obama for anointing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee,” writes journalist Chris Whipple, author of Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. Obama and his advisers pressured Biden not to run in 2016 and made clear they didn’t think he could beat Hillary, which really pissed him off. “Nothing could have angered Biden more—or made him more determined to show Obama and his condescending advisers just how much they underestimated him,” journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write in Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. Biden fumed while watching Hillary go down in flames on election night and started plotting his revenge.
“Biden had never gotten over the affronts, and he no longer trusted Obama’s political judgment,” Allen and Parnes write. “After Hillary’s shattering 2016 loss, Biden told everyone who would listen that he would have beaten Trump and that Obama had been wrong. In his mind, Obama was responsible, in no small part, for Trump’s presidency.” When the 2020 election started gearing up, Obama was just as dismissive toward Biden. “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” he told his former running mate. Obama was far blunter behind Biden’s back, warning fellow Democrats not to “underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” (For once, he was right.) In the run-up to the campaign, Politico reported, Biden started “making a show of reading articles about Obama world’s interest in others. ‘You believe this shit?’ he’d ask aloud.”
Biden had every reason not to run. His crackhead son Hunter was spiraling out of control. “The last thing a father needed, with his son in the midst of a life-and-death struggle, was a presidential campaign,” Whipple writes in Uncharted. A better father might have called it quits, but Biden was determined to exact his petty vengeance. “He would show everyone who doubted him, including Obama and his advisers, just how wrong they were,” Whipple writes. And so he did. Biden’s (alleged) election in 2020 would pave the way for the crisis that unfolded in 2024.
Obama was reportedly telling people that it “made the most sense” for Biden to only serve one term rather than “test fate again at eighty-one years old,” according to Allen and Parnes. As president, Biden was obsessed with outshining his former boss. He would celebrate perceived accomplishments by saying, “Obama would be jealous.” Biden was hardly alone in his resentment of Obama and his minions. His inner circle, including Dr. Jill, was just as driven by their spite. According to Whipple, by the time Biden was forced out of the race in July of last year, “almost everyone” in the president’s camp “blamed Barack Obama.” Perhaps the main reason why Biden decided to quickly endorse Kamala Harris after dropping out was because he knew how much it would annoy Obama, who had “deep misgivings” about the VP and favored a “mini-primary” he was sure Harris would lose. “[T]he most satisfying aspect of his decision to endorse had little to do with Harris,” Allen and Parnes report. “‘It was a fuck-you to Obama’s plan,’ said one person close to both men. ‘At that moment, you have very few things you control, and that’s the one thing he had control over, and he chose to stick it to Obama.'”
As a result, Democrats were stuck with a candidate who was arguably even worse than Hillary Clinton. Trump sailed to victory and even won the popular vote, paving the way for America’s restoration and a new Golden Age. Thanks, Obama. Few have done more to ensure Trump’s success, which is also America’s success. He might never have run if Obama had been more respectful in 2011. He might not have won in 2016 if Obama hadn’t picked such a terrible successor, and he might not have won so easily in 2024 if not for the petty feud between Obama and Biden, a pair of raging narcissists. This turned out great for America, so perhaps it’s time for Republicans to start appreciating Obama’s contributions to the cause. On the other hand, if you are an obnoxious Democrat who despises this country and thinks Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, you should probably hate the guy.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
