Obama scolds Hispanic Trump supporters who worried about inflation, says nation being 'tested' under Trump
'Now, your sons are being stopped in LA because they look Latino,' Obama said
By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published October 13, 2025 4:14pm EDTFormer President Barack Obama scolded Hispanic voters during a conversation with podcast host and comedian Marc Maron published Monday for supporting President Donald Trump in 2024 due to inflation concerns.
Obama said the country and its progressive wing were being "tested" right now. The former president said he and Maron were part of a generation that saw things get better with time, but said their positions were never really tested.
"It was easy, I think, to say, well, yeah, I'm a progressive. But it didn't really cost us anything," the former president said.
"We could take positions on things that we thought were correct, but they were never really tested," he added. "We're being tested right now. I think people, and that includes young people, understand there are consequences to the choices that we're making. If you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. If you are a Hispanic man, and you're frustrated about inflation and so you decided, eh, you know what, all that rhetoric about Trump doesn't matter, I'm just mad about inflation. And now, your sons are being stopped in LA because they look Latino. That's a test."
"There's some clarity that's coming about right now that I wish it'd be great if we weren't tested this way, but you know what, we probably need to be shaken out of our complacency anyway," Obama said.
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