Barack Obama

CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour welcomed former colleague Reza Aslan, whom she labeled an “Iranian-American religious scholar," to her Friday show to discuss what the future holds for ordinary Iranians after the current war ends. According to Aslan, it is the United States’s fault that previous protest movements have failed to topple the regime because we have “been doing the…

Is it any real surprise that the crown prince of the most notorious left-wing empires in American politics is getting all bent out of shape because President Donald Trump decided to finally dismantle the murderous Islamist regime of Iran? 

The New York Post reported that Jesse Jackson's raucous funeral on Friday included a pile of attacks on President Trump. One would think the networks would love that -- but on the Friday night newscasts, the broadcast networks skipped over the anti-Trump zingers, keeping it as positive and nebulous as possible. 

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough swooned over Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico after his primary victory over Rep. Jasmine Crockett, saying the state legislator had “exploded onto the national stage, a lot like Barack Obama.” Scarborough unapologetically repeated the analogy: “Yes, I will say, a lot like Barack Obama.”

On Friday’s weekly PBS journalists roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, panel regular Susan Glasser of the New Yorker foisted insults on President Trump for being obliged to appear at the State of the Union after losing on tariffs at the Supreme Court, “I really think that this is a really embarrassing political moment for Donald Trump to be going up to Capitol Hill…

A 3,000-word “news analysis” by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker on Trump’s supposed cult of personality was headlined cheekily: “A Superman, Jedi and Pope -- Trump’s Relentless Bid to Mythologize Himself.” The online version was more insulting: “Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality-- President Trump has engaged in a spree…

Quiz: How many times has Barack Obama been "fact checked" by PolitiFact since he left office in 2017? Seven. Trump has 11 so far in 2026. So you can guess they won't be "fact checking" his latest interview, where he smears the Republicans as uncaring about the rule or law, or democracy, or the truth.

This week, reports surfaced that the Epstein Files contain a litany of messages outlining a deep-seated personal and professional relationship between the disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler. As a result, she resigned from her high-ranking post at Goldman Sachs. Despite the thousand-plus minutes of Epstein coverage on the flagship…

CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish says she gives President Trump no credit for pulling the video depicting that Obama's as apes, since he didn't apologize and blamed it on someone else. She also twice accuses Trump of "racism."

On CNN This Morning, Democrat strategist Antjuan Seawright says: "I don't think this is the posture of someone who's planning to leave the White House in three years because he's been very aggressive about his foreign policy approach and taking over countries."

Former First Lady Michelle Obama continued her late night fashion book tour on Monday when she travelled to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the book and lament that the “rules and norms and standards” that applied to the White House allegedly no longer exist.

Morning Joe defends CNN against President Trump's comments that CNN should be sold to new ownership as part of any sale of Warner Bros., and criticizes Trump's comments to a CNN reporter that "you work for the Democrats" and that the network is "basically an arm of the Democrat party."

Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It’s the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union address that “The era of big government is over.” Emanuel has a stellar political resume that…

CNN’s Abby Phillip swung by The Breakfast Club radio show on Tuesday to promote her book about Jesse Jackson and at one point argued that it’s a known fact that many voters and “especially white voters” apply a higher standard to black candidates. Phillip provided no evidence for her accusation.