Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, called the murder "horrific" and a "threat to all of us," while also suggesting President Trump was trying to capitalize on the tragedy as a means to stifle dissent.
Obama's comments, during a moderated conversation at the Jefferson Educational Society’s 17th annual global summit on Tuesday, began appropriately sympathetic and outraged over the tragedy.
"Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy," the former President said.
“When it happens to somebody, even if you think they’re quote unquote ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it."
Obama would later state that he did not know Kirk well, and though he disagreed with his ideas, he mourned for his family over the senseless killing.
"He was a young man with two small children and a wife, who obviously had a huge number of friends and supporters who cared about him. So we have to extend grace to people during their period of mourning and shock."
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So far, so good, right?
Obama, though, being Obama, had to quantify his comments by referencing a list of opinions the left has used to justify violence against Kirk, including reviving a quote about his wife's "brain processing power" that has been spread in recent days but fact-checked as an "altered quote."
The ol' 'killing is bad, but he did say these terrible things *wink wink*' dog whistle is an expected touch. Also expected, since Obama is a raging narcissist, was that he wouldn't be able to control himself and make the tragedy about him. And by extension, he had to take a jab at the man who neutralized his own failed presidency, plus a third shadow term under Joe Biden. (That has to drive him crazy.)
As such, he ripped Trump and insinuated the current President is trying to silence critics.
“When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents vermin, enemies, who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now and something that we’re going to have to grapple with, all of us,” Obama claimed.
The New York Times with no sense of history about the Divider in Chief, Barack Obama:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 17, 2025
"Former President Barack Obama suggested on Tuesday that President Trump and his allies were using the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk to stoke division and silence… pic.twitter.com/nQe86Hq48N
Obama also found the temerity to insist that, while there are fringe elements on both sides of the political aisle, he never pushed divisive rhetoric during his time in the White House.
"But I will say that — those extreme views were not in my White House," he said. "I wasn't embracing them. I wasn't empowering them. I wasn't putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views."
"When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we've got a problem."
The absolute balls it takes to say that when we've spent the past decade hearing Obama, Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and on and on refer to Trump supporters - half the nation - as "fascists" or "Nazis" or an "existential threat" to the country is mind-numbing.
Obama was one of the most divisive presidents in this country's history. He quite literally used the death of Trayvon Martin as a springboard to create a massive racial divide in this country during his presidency.
As for calling political opponents "enemies"? Yeah, he did that too.
Some would suggest Obama was so divisive during his presidency that it actually led to Mr. Trump's shocking victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. The divisiveness, relentless weaponization of government, and the violent threats from his party under Biden's reign helped bring us Trump 2.0.
Here again, Obama demonstrates that divisiveness, suggesting the violent rhetoric is equal on both sides of the political spectrum (it isn't) and taking an unnecessary swipe at both Trump and Kirk, two victims of targeted political violence.
Spare us the projection, Barack.
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