The evening after Donald Trump was elected to serve as the 47th president of the United States, former President Barack Obama issued a statement in which he congratulated Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance, lauded Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz, and claimed he believed in extending “good faith and grace—even to people with whom we deeply disagree.”
“This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,” Obama stated. “But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”
“America has been through a lot over the last few years—from a historic pandemic and price hikes resulting from the pandemic, to rapid change and the feeling a lot of folks have that, no matter how hard they work, treading water is the best they can do,” he pontificated. “Those conditions have created headwinds for democratic incumbents around the world, and last night showed that America is not immune.”
“The good news is that these problems are solvable—but only if we listen to each other, and only if we abide by the core constitutional principles and democratic norms that made this country great,” said the man who two weeks before the election told a rally, “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter.”
Obama is also the person whose own rhetoric and that of other Democrat leaders had fanned the flames of division before and during the time he was president, as The Daily Wire has noted.
“In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won’t always see eye-to-eye on everything. But progress requires us to extend good faith and grace—even to people with whom we deeply disagree,” Obama continued.
Three weeks before the election, Obama, whose wife Michelle famously said, “When they go low, we go high,” decided he had no interest in dignity, lampooning former President Trump by implying he’s someone who wears adult diapers. Speaking at the University of Pittsburgh, Obama asked the audience, “Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?” When a member of the audience called out, “His own!” Obama laughed, “I almost said that, but I decided I should not say it.”
Obama, what an obnoxious clownhttps://t.co/M3hE4t6rwE
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 11, 2024
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Obama made a crude hand gesture when he spoke of Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
Obama appears to make crude hand gesture while describing Trump’s ‘weird obsession’ with crowd sizes https://t.co/eevmLBwJcW pic.twitter.com/0kwgStLvTJ
— New York Post (@nypost) August 21, 2024
“That’s how we’ve come this far, and it’s how we’ll keep building a country that is more fair and more just, more equal and more free,” Obama concluded in his statement.
Here’s our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election: pic.twitter.com/lDkNVQDvMn
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 6, 2024
