You know, I'm not that worried about it because man is he boring. Like, it's very hard to like actually absorb anything Obama's saying. You're just going like, come on, dude.
You could drive a truck through those spaces between words. It's just like, we get it. You're important, historic, but try to speed it up a bit.
For years, Barack Obama seemed to have the presidential image down perfectly, even while critics questioned what exactly they were supposed to celebrate. Then, Greg Gutfeld came along and decided the honeymoon was over. What followed was less a political discussion and more a full-on roast packed with sarcasm, sharp punchlines, and some uncomfortable reminders about Obama's record.
But Gutfeld wasn't done yet because his biggest shot was still coming. Obama's now a Republican. [laughter] Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about.
But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. Waste we should be getting rid of even if we didn't have a deficit. Apparently the government used to overnight containers filled with nothing.
Don't ask why that is. Sure, some of these cuts aren't that big, but no amount of waste is acceptable. Not when it's your money.
You know, the federal government pays for a website devoted to a folk music ensemble made up of foreign Greg Gutfeld has never been the type to hand out participation trophies. But when Barack Obama becomes the target, Gutfeld's sarcasm hits a whole different level. Over the years, he has repeatedly gone after Obama's policies, speeches, public image, and political legacy, often turning serious criticism into comedy.
And somehow he delivers it with enough bite that even the punchline feels like an audit. The most boring person on the planet. And that says something.
I have a rule of thumb though. When they say it's both sides, it's their fault. Because when it's your fault, they just say it's your fault.
You follow me? So every time you hear both sides do it, you know they're culpable. Because when it's our fault, they we they never say that.
They just go, "It's your fault. " So, what followed was anything but a gentle disagreement. Gutfeld repeatedly went after Obama's policies, political image, relationship with the media, and even the way Americans were expected to view his presidency.
But the surprising part is that Gutfeld rarely takes the usual political approach. Instead, he uses something that can hit a carefully built public image even harder. Ridicue.
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I would say that was probably the peak of my entire existence when he just changed all the rules on the table in regards to Cuba with the most succinct motivation imaginable, which is uh what we've been doing hasn't worked, which made all the sense in the world. When I was at the UN and I, you know, I heard our president say that climate change is the most important issue. And that's where the story gets interesting.
Political criticism can be debated, fact checked, defended, or simply dismissed. But sarcasm has a way of sticking in people's minds. If someone tells you a policy is flawed, you can argue over the numbers.
If someone says a speech fell flat, you can debate the delivery. But once the criticism becomes a joke, it can be a lot harder to forget. Today we woke up to breaking news.
Obama isn't woke at all. This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly.
So wait, you're telling me that ruining people because they're not as politically pure as you are is wrong? You mean you, Barack Hussein, Obama agrees with everything that Dave Chappelle, Dennis Prager, Adam Corolla, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, Reason Magazine, the GG Show, National Review, and every sensible talking head on Fox News have been saying all along. Hooray!
How is Don Lemon taking this? Is Chris Cuomo conscious? What's the New York Times editorial board going to do?
I hope Buzzfeed, Vox, Jezebel, and Media Matters have taken all their But when someone turns a public figure's entire political image into a punchline, the conversation gets much harder to control. That was Gutfeld's approach with Obama. He often argued that Obama mastered presentation.
While critics questioned what was actually underneath it, his formula was simple. Strip away the polished image and ask an uncomfortable question. What happens when the image is gone?
Gutfeld acknowledged Obama was a powerful communicator, but challenged whether the message deserved the same level of admiration. Obama and Trump say what? Tyrus, Trump and Obama sat next to each other at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
They appear to have buried the hatchet. What do you think they were saying? Oh, I know what they were saying.
Hey, two-term guy. What's up, two-term guy? How are you [laughter] doing?
I don't know. just doing my two-term thing and Biden was in the front and Camala was in the Oh, I'm sorry. No term and one term.
[laughter] You know, it's so funny. Dana and Meanwhile, you have Hillary no term sitting there and she's just away from her two-term Trump. Hey, but she got Gutfeld often mocked what he saw as the unusually friendly relationship between Obama and the mainstream media.
When Obama praised the lack of drama during his presidency, Gutfeld joked that maybe the media simply wasn't looking too hard. He pointed to controversies involving the IRS, Justice Department, and Benghazi, arguing that media scrutiny could change depending on who was in the White House. He used the same approach when discussing Obama's legacy, questioning whether protecting a president's historical image should matter more than the consequences of their decision.
with uh Barack at his birthday party and he's a good dancer. You know, he should not get any flack for [music] that. You're a good dancer.
She's right. He could cut a rug. Look at Syria, Iran, ISIS.
I'd say his best move was the chicken dance. Oh, boy. And Obamacare, a hustle.
Don't worry, sad stars. Obama isn't really going away, though. He can always keep playing a president on TV.
He'd probably do a great job, or at least do less damage. So, Hollywood will miss Obama, but what will Obama miss? Donald Trump, ISIS, American descent.
It's hard to miss something you didn't see coming or going in the first. Then Gutfeld did what he does best. Turned foreign policy into a punchline.
His criticism of Obama's Iran strategy focused on the idea that the administration was too eager to protect its diplomatic success while downplaying uncomfortable details. Guffeld also mocked the polished language used to describe people involved in the controversy and that fit perfectly with his broader criticism of Obama. The presidency could sometimes feel like a carefully staged performance.
Even when discussing Obama's farewell speech, Gutfeld acknowledged its emotional impact while questioning whether powerful rhetoric could distract from the actual result. So, it's good to hear this guy bash leftist cancelled culture. But I wish he'd done it when it mattered, when he was president.
Think of how many uncancled people might still have jobs. Antifa would have stayed in its basement sniffing its own toes. But maybe it's not his fault.
He's a little tardy. My theory, he didn't realize how bad it was until his kids came home from college and said, "Holy crap, Dad. Avocados are tools of the patriarchy.
" That's when he said, "Damn, this bleep is getting out of hand. " When you're the greatest Democrat alive and your kids might end up joining the young Republicans, you got to do something. You might want to criticize it the way Obama did.
They say you never grow up until your kids come home from college. That criticism goes straight to the heart of political celebrity. Presidents are judged not only by what they accomplish, but also by the image built around those accomplishments.
Obama became exceptionally skilled at creating that image. Gutfeld's approach was to strip away the polish and focus on the actual record. That's where the sarcasm becomes more than entertainment.
His message is simple. Applause is only the beginning. Sooner or later, someone has to ask the question politicians would rather avoid.
Where's the receipt? And that question becomes even more uncomfortable when it comes to Obama's relationship with the media. President Obama still has Trump on his mind.
Tuesday, he spoke to the Economic Club of Chicago where Crane's columnist Greg Huns noted a startling comparison of Trump to Hickler. Huns paraphrases what he heard President Obama say. We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly.
That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s which despite the democracy of the Vhimar Republic and centuries of highlevel cultural and scientific achievements, Adolf Hitler rose to dominate. 60 million people died. So you got to pay attention and vote.
So Nazi when Obama criticized Fox News and blamed its coverage for some of the Democrats political problems, Gutfeld turned the complaint into a joke. the exaggerated Fox's supposed influence until the network sounded like a secret conservative super villain controlling every coffee shop conversation. That's classic Gutfeld.
Instead of debating the claim directly, he pushed it to an absurd extreme. And that's why his style works on television. People may forget statistics or policy details, but they remember a ridiculous metaphor.
The joke becomes the delivery system, carrying the criticism much further than a traditional political lecture. Another interesting tweet you had recently was, "Fracking is weaning us off foreign oil. " But who's counting?
Not Obama. Did I tweet that? Yes, you did.
That doesn't sound like me. You did. There's no punch line.
No, I think not Obama was the punch line. [laughter] Oh, really? Yeah.
The the I I always look at fracking as a as a solution to a number of issues. Jobs creates jobs. Uh uh eases your dependence off of crazy people.
That That's good. and you have a lot of energy for the rest of it's like how could this be bad and it low you would you would you have cheap natural gas but he's he is terrified of I think the environmentalist factions in his own party that's why Gutfeld's attacks on Obama often feel less like political analysis and more like a courtroom performance with a comedian taking the final witness stand he presents the argument then uses humor to question whether Obama's polished image really matches the record his goal isn't to win with one statistic, but to make viewers question the bigger narrative. The comedy doesn't replace the argument.
It makes it easier to remember. Instead of a long political lecture, viewers get a joke, an exaggerated comparison, and a question that sticks long after the punchline. Does this matter?
Well, here there's two weird things about this. Why is Okay, weird. It's weird Obama's doing this while all this other stuff is going on.
Like, shouldn't he be helping out Joe? Like, he totally ghosts Joe. I always say that he's like the guy whenever you go to a party with somebody that you don't like and you try to lose them at the party.
That's what Obama has done to Joe. He's lost them at the party and now he's moving all and then he tweets and then you find out that he's tweeting about something else while you're at the party and it's just I think it's kind of mean to Joe. The second thing is that it's part of that I told you mechanism that only happens when things are good.
That's the real gutfeld formula and it explains why he doesn't need everyone to agree with him. He just needs viewers to stay tuned for the next punchline, comparison, or uncomfortable question. His biggest weapon is curiosity.
You never quite know where a simple political observation will end up that became especially effective when he challenged the mythology around Obama's speeches and public image. Obama is widely seen as a strong communication. But Gutfeld asks whether great communication can sometimes overshadow actual results.
A polished interview can look like image management, while a legacy discussion can feel like reputation management. That doesn't prove anything was dishonest, but it creates doubt. And doubt is where satire can be most powerful.
Soothed by his NPR voice. I was the most relaxing I've ever heard of him. Look, um, it's I think he's sexist.
I think he he's portraying the ne his candidate as a damsel in distress that somehow she's the target all of all these things when in fact she's responsible for all these all these things by having this email this private server. And there's one thing too that like he's ignoring and a lot of people are ignoring is that team Hillary knew about Anthony [music] Weiner before he resigned. The same idea applies to Gutfeld's criticism of Obama's public image and presidential optics.
His comments about Obama's golf outings after major national security events focused less on whether he could play golf and more on how those choices looked to the public. That's why Obama's polished persona made such an easy target. The more perfect the image, the more satisfying it is to puncture.
Gutfeld doesn't need to tear down the entire legacy.
