“Bridging divides and finding common ground” defined Barack Obama’s political career. Preposterous assertion of the morning from @GarrettHaake, NBC News chief White House reporter, hosting @MeetThePress: “This week the Obama Presidential Center opened to the public in Chicago, a https://t.co/C41JMX5uO5

CBS’s @MargBrennan delivered a very generous look back at opening of the Obama Presidential Center “to honor and celebrate the legacy of the nation’s first black President” where Barack Obama “spoke of America’s resilience and urged them to reject division and recommit to each https://t.co/SxHVKbuecB

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs -- Rosie O'Donnell claims Trump stole the 2024 election (with Elon Musk) and will cancel the 2026 election with a conjured assassination attempt or something because that's the "fascist playbook." Jim Acosta cares about the Truth about as much as Dan https://t.co/zp8cXJTzKU

BROADCAST BIAS: Reporters treat Obama’s Chicago celebration like a star-studded tribute https://t.co/l3NuW1LAOx #FoxNews

When it came time for the Michelle hype, Norris claimed, "The former first lady has star power of her own, and her emergence on the global stage is also captured in the museum...But let's be clear Michelle Obama was more than a style icon, more than a best-selling author, more https://t.co/hj72jNcemL

During a two-hour special on the opening up of the Obama Presidential Center, the closest thing host Michele Norris got to criticism is that Obama wasn't left enough, "there are the more ambitious goals criminal justice reform, close the gun show loophole. Voting rights https://t.co/eJcWelZr5p

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Later, during another recording, Acosta tells former CNN colleague John Harwood, "maybe you and I will have to pinch ourselves and say we got to cover this when it happened. But this, you know, he was our generation's JFK, and, you know, he is going to go down in history I think https://t.co/gLndqFbPaP

Sunny Hostin gets triggered because Vice President J.D. Vance made a joke about The View being hostile to him and holds an inquisition against Joy Behar, accusing her of literally being his best friend: VP J.D. VANCE: I have seen some progressive criticisms of me personally https://t.co/oEQW2EwW6h

It was a busy day of Obama gushing for for media personalities. Jim Acosta says on his livestream, "I mean, what a remarkable story that this is." Former CBS/NBC anchor Katie Couric agrees "Yeah. You know, I mean, it's a sort of painful reminder of what this country was like back https://t.co/qWZ87oAhPT

Ignoring how the community didn't want it, Sunny Hostin praising how the Obama Center took over a neighborhood, which she says "needed to be developed" because it was "underserved for so long." https://t.co/rsqmHyvXo1

Seth Meyers also hyped the Obama celebrity guest list, "Today was the opening dedication of the Obama Presidential Library, which featured performances...by Bruce Springsteen, Common, John Legend, Eddie Vedder, Stevie Wonder, and Bono. Oh, my god, and Trump couldn't even get https://t.co/qE7NWQy5lv

After claiming the Knicks may "just put some random tall black guys in Knicks Jerseys and Trump won't know the difference" when they visit the White House, Jimmy Kimmel turns to the Obama Presidential Center and praises the celebrity list, sarcastically noting "I guess they https://t.co/OQ6sRwWpWG

“Barack Obama said that the most important words in the English language are ‘we.’ And I think that speaks volumes for who they are and what they represent, ‘we.’” MAGA-coded CBS News? Not so much. Gayle King enthused on @CBSMornings over Obama Presidential Center: “I want to go https://t.co/qGnUqvqJhC

Trump-deranged @ABCWorldNews continues to cover the algae bloom at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as though it were a national emergency: DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the reflecting pool on the National Mall. Tonight, not only has the new blue turned green. Tonight, reports https://t.co/Xu7b82vD4H

At the Obama party, rapper Common fits in Black Panther Fred Hampton in his list of respectable figures in his "Higher Ground" rhyming. https://t.co/STDUBJkf18

ABC "News" hits the snooze. Robin Roberts helps Michelle mock Barack for his answers to the "fun" questions. It's a "mic drop" when Michelle says her next chapter is "me, me, me." https://t.co/q5tsmN2TbU

Brian Williams is back. New @Netflix show, We’re Back with Brian Williams, debuted today. Question to guest Tom Hanks: “Do you still recognize the core of America? There was a book written about the Rehnquist court, which is so quaint now, and the title was ‘The Center Holds,’ https://t.co/rYU1PTwKEC

Jordan Klepper did one of his man-on-the-street bits before the White House UFC fight and wondered "So, which emperor is Trump? Is he, like, Nero?" and "He might be like Caligula... Caligula tried to get his horse voted into the Senate, I believe." https://t.co/ZUbJaaquIN

Sunny Hostin supports the Knicks players if they wanted to boycott the White House trip: "There's a reason why every single - the previous five NBA champions crowned during the Trump administration refused to go. I think there's a reason for it, that's because he politicizes the https://t.co/s2R4pAcDmZ