Barack Obama was not as popular as the media likes to make him out to be
According to Gallup, his overall job approval rating was less than that of George W Bush, large majorities consistently said the country is heading in the wrong direction, he left the Democratic Party in worse shape than when he first came in office, and he lost around 3 million votes in the 2012 election from his 2008 total. Plus average growth rate under his tenure was less than 2%
But the media and the elites loved him dearly and so they re-created him in their image