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It feels like the United States is more divided than ever, but if asked how we got to this point, most people could suggest at least one or two events that they believe precipitated the anger.
Unless you’re asking former President Barack Obama, who claimed during a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday that he doesn’t “understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter.”
Watch:
Barack Obama: “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter.” pic.twitter.com/OWj3uicQ1o
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 22, 2024
“I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” he said. “I get why sometimes people just don’t want to pay attention to it. And we all have friends like that; we have family members who are just like, ‘Ahh, y’know, it’s all a circus out there.’”
X users just couldn’t stand the thought of Obama not having the answer, so they offered up a few of their own:
Look in the mirror
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) October 22, 2024
Hmm, something about calling half the country supremacist terrorists idk
— George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85) October 22, 2024
What a joke. Obama is the one who started dividing the Country by race and Conservatives vs. Democrats because he is thin skinned and got mad when he lost the House and Senate in 2010. He weaponized the Government.
— WendylDail (@wendylwilson2) October 22, 2024
It’s not like you spent 8 years on a national stage sowing those seeds of division, toxicity, and bitterness.
You are a walking hypocrite and a disgusting human being. REPENT @BarackObama
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 22, 2024
It’s just a mystery. pic.twitter.com/8tYzT47GnA
— Duke Neovocis (@neovocis) October 22, 2024
The guy who got his surrogates to call everyone racist who offered legitimate criticism of him and who used the pejorative term “tea-baggers” to refer to people who wanted to return to fiscal responsibility and limited government doesn’t know how we got so divided, huh??
— Axiomatic Enemy of the State (@DeTocqueville14) October 22, 2024
Hold my Martha’s Vineyard map. @mirandadevine @MZHemingway pic.twitter.com/ls1jgT0m7v
— joe miller (@joemill37087868) October 22, 2024
Now that’s what I call disconnect from reality.
— Kaspa King (@Kasapking128258) October 22, 2024
It was literally your presidency pic.twitter.com/YyXH7rMPW7
— Patriotic Jon (@Patriotic_Jon) October 22, 2024
Geee. It’s almost like he wasn’t aware of his 8yrs in office.
— Bleu Cheque (@VERBAL_CHANCLA) October 22, 2024
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