‘I miss having a human president’: The internet welcomes back Obama and his ‘intelligible words’
Barack Obama offered a brief reminder Monday that presidents can speak intelligible, complete sentences on subjects they’re qualified to speak about.
The former president didn’t take any overt shots at his successor during a lecture at the University of Chicago, where he once taught constitutional law, but his talk stood in stark contrast to this weekend’s bewildering Associated Press interview with President Donald Trump.
The differences weren’t lost on social media users.
Hearing President Obama speak reminds me how much I miss having a president.
— Rosita (@rmcgilvra) April 24, 2017
I miss having a human President. #obama
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April 24, 2017
It's so strange watching and listening to President Obama right now. It feels like ages ago that this sense of calm I feel was mundane.
ADVERTISEMENT— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 24, 2017
Listening to President Obama speak delivers an unbelievable sense of calm & motivation. I miss having a President who I love & respect.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) April 24, 2017
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@LawyerRogelio Me after former President Obama sit-down and realizing the now @POTUS referred to himself as "Easy D" pic.twitter.com/LxMKLlJC1S
— quietasitskept (@godiskeisha) April 24, 2017
Daily reminder that it's been 51 days since Trump accused Obama of a felony and still hasn't provided proof or apologized.
— Talia (@2020fight) April 24, 2017
@ABC @SagArcher Listen!!! Intelligible words! Noun verb agreements, and not one "disaster" "tremendous" to be found. Thank you, @POTUS44
ADVERTISEMENT— elle2.0🇺🇸🇮🇹🇺🇸 (@elle2_0) April 24, 2017
"I would advise all of you to be a little more circumspect, in terms of your selfies" – is possibly the most barack obama a sentence can be
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2017
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President Obama's return feels like you've been held hostage by meth-smoking creeps, and the cops show up…for a minute.#mondaymotivation pic.twitter.com/DNyvU6VXTu
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 24, 2017
Everybody watching Obama at University of Chicago on TV right now and remembering what a president sounds like. pic.twitter.com/cTrNnsQTAZ
— Travon Free (@Travon) April 24, 2017
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Republican lawmakers ask judge to destroy smoking gun documents proving GOP’s white supremacy
Republicans on Monday sought a court order to block damning documents from being used against them in a lawsuit.
"North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Monday asked a court to make sure the files of the now-deceased GOP strategist Tom Hofeller are destroyed, or at least kept secret, instead of being used in a high-profile gerrymandering lawsuit," the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
"The filing comes after the groups behind the lawsuit, including Common Cause, accused Republican lawmakers of making false statements in court in a previous gerrymandering case, when the state’s 2011 maps were ruled unconstitutional," the newspaper noted. "That blockbuster accusation made national headlines and was, it said, based on Hofeller’s files which had been secret until recently."
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Trump angrily demands newspaper reveal unnamed sources behind bombshell report on his Russia policy
President Donald Trump on Monday evening again lashed out at The New York Times for reporting on his Russia policy.
"The story in The New York Times about the U.S. escalating attacks on Russia’s power grid is fake news, and the failing New York Times knows it," Trump argued in a tweet sent after 10 p.m.
"They should immediately release their sources which, if they exist at all, which I doubt, are phony," he continued.
"Times must be held fully accountable," he demanded.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140804748423118848
Trouble appears to be brewing between President Donald Trump and the cable news station he loves: Fox News.
In a tweet Monday night, the president lashed out at the network over its polling and called it “fake news’ — an epithet he usually reserves for mainstream outlets:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140768516288782336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Matthew Gertz, who has previously noted that Trump appears to record news segments and watch them a few hours later, suggested that the president appeared to be reacting to an earlier segment from Special Report with Bret Baier. The segment showed that, even according to Fox News’ polling, Trump trails every single leading candidate in the Democratic field in head-to-head matchups.
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