Why Democrats Should Hate (And Republicans Should Love) Barack Obama, the Foundational MAGA Warrior
Few have done more to ensure Donald Trump's political success, which is good for America
Andrew Stiles
April 25, 2025
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.
