Democrats frequently decry the destruction of “norms” by President Donald Trump.

How could he “weaponize” the Department of Justice in heretofore unknown ways? How dare he push gerrymandering in a way that benefits his political party? Unheard of! How authoritarian can he be, using emergency declarations to issue executive orders? Unprecedented!

Trump beats Democrats at their own game, and it drives them (even more) insane.

Well, who can we really thank for this destruction of norms? Barack Obama.

The former lecturer-in-chief visited comedian Marc Maron’s final “WTF” podcast on Monday to scold the Left and Right alike for disappointing him. Naturally, his remarks were chock-full of hypocritical gaslighting.

“You can’t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you’ve got some blind spots, too, and that life’s messy,” Obama opined. “Some progressive language,” he said, “was almost asserting a holier-than-thou superiority that’s not that different from what we used to joke about coming from the Right Moral Majority and a certain fundamentalism about how to think about stuff that I think was dangerous.” He warned, “You can’t just be a scold all the time.”

Unless your name is Obama. No one scolds America like Barack and Michelle.

How many times did he smugly dismiss his opponents while he opined about being on the “right side of history”?

As for being on the wrong side, he spoke to his ideological fellow travelers about the issue of “transgenderism,” which, by the way, is largely a social media contagion that seems to be losing popularity. “If I talked about trans issues, I wasn’t talking down to people and saying, ‘Oh, you’re a bigot,’” Obama explained. “I’d say, ‘You know, it’s tough enough being a teenager. Let’s treat all kids decently. Why would we want to see kids bullied?’”

Obama was indeed awfully slick in his rhetoric about the Left’s growing sex cult. He didn’t even embrace same-sex “marriage” until 2012, and the “trans” movement didn’t really take off until the end of his second term. But Obama engineered the Democrats’ slide down the slippery slope that yielded a dude flashing his prosthetic breasts on Joe Biden’s White House lawn.

Another subject Obama addressed was the weaponization of the DOJ. “We don’t want kangaroo courts and trumped-up charges. That’s what happens in other places that we used to scold for doing that. We want our court system and our Justice Department and our prosecutors and our FBI to be playing things straight and looking at the facts and not meddling in politics.”

Barack Obama: “We don’t want kangaroo courts and trumped up charges. We want our court system and our DOJ and FBI to be playing things straight and not meddling in politics.” pic.twitter.com/7gJMWGCsO4

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 14, 2025

He also said, “We have blown through … a whole range of … rules and laws and practices that were put in place to ensure that nobody is above the law. We don’t use the federal government to simply reward our friends and punish our enemies.”

Barack Obama: “We have blown through a whole range of practices that were put in place to ensure that nobody is above the law. We don’t use the federal government to simply reward our friends and punish our enemies.” pic.twitter.com/jjgvfFfq2d

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 14, 2025

Waiter, fact-check, please.

Obama, of course, presided over the DOJ and FBI that colluded with Hillary Clinton’s campaign to sabotage Donald Trump’s first bid for the White House. When that didn’t work, they launched Phase II — the attempted coup.

His DOJ also targeted the Little Sisters of the Poor over ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, and it engineered a gun-running operation to Mexican drug cartels to advance the “need” for gun control. His IRS targeted Tea Party and Patriot groups leading up to the 2012 election to hinder their ability to participate. His entire legacy was marked by scandal and weaponization, despite his mythology of denial.

Despite the “norm” of former presidents quietly retiring, Obama arguably ran the Biden White House. Thankfully, he got trounced in 2024.

I’m not going to bore you with other lowlights from the podcast, but one other “norm” Obama and Maron did not talk about is government shutdowns, which became a more regular feature beginning under Obama. This time, his party shut down the government to preserve his namesake entitlement program, ObamaCare.

Back to the idea of history, we live in a moment in which much of Obama’s legacy is being repudiated. Trump was elected both times to stop the advance of the Obama agenda. How about a podcast of self-reflection on that?

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