Damn Obama, making me tear up, yet again. And let us weep over the futility of wasting such eloquence on the most thoroughly depraved individual to ever squat in the Oval Office.
Obama wrote that presidents are āguardiansā of ādemocratic institutions and traditionsā which they should strive to leave āat least as strong as we found them.ā
Iām confident that, when Trump leaves office, our ādemocratic institutions and traditionsā will be stronger.
Especially the ones involving Special Counsels, the rule of law, and the order of succession.
Pearls before swine.
Some stupid just canāt be schooled.
Memo to DT: That is not the type of āaction and exampleā President Obama meant.
So, like a good Republican, he does the exact opposite of what President Obsma advises.
This just makes me miss President Obama more. I remember what it was like to have an intelligent, thoughtful man sitting in the Oval Office. Now we have a petulant man-child who thinks that Twitter is a great outlet for sharing his brain farts with the world. Sigh.
Knowing Trump would do the opposite, Obama should have said:
Tweet before you think.
Misspell as many words as possible.
Golf every weekend.
Hire only family and cronies.
Listen to nobody.
Put personal profit first.
Screw the poor.
Alienate our friends.
Threaten everyone and never follow through.
Throw rallies for yourself every two weeks.
Build the wall even if you have to shut down the government.
Fire James Comey.
{incomplete list}
Hire Nazis.
O/T: Walter Becker died. This changes my plans for the day ā¦
Edit: Saw them in '93-94 at Shoreline when they finally decided to start touring again. If they were afraid they couldnāt do a credible job of replicating their studio work live, they were wrong. Fantastic show.
Deport 800 dreamers after making a declaration āI love dreamers.ā Itās preordained. Whatever wisdom and advice President Obama imparted will be ignored because a president with the wrong color imparted it.
@j.dave Weāll always have AJA.
As has been pointed out before, trying to give advice to Trump is likeā¦
In one 
of Orange-Mugabe, out the other
Valiant and ennobling advise, my good man, BO!..however, this waste of human blurb is useless and irredeemable.
Obama has wisely kept quiet in the fights over his political accomplishments, but itās obvious heās disgusted. Leaking the contents of the letter seems like a good sign heās had enough of staying mum.
EDIT: Should have read the CNN article. Disregard comment. @numbertwopencil
Well, that letter certainly triggered my āwhat we had then/what we have nowā pain reflexā¦ Canāt help but wonder who leaked this: who had access, and exactly what they were, um, sub-tweeting.
Edit, to @coprophagoussmile: I donāt think itād be Obama. Nothing in there heād feel compelled to communicate that we all donāt already know, and the Obama of my imagination, at least, would think that was inappropriate. An Obama aide, perhaps, if one had access; but Iām leaning more toward its being just one more leak/cry for help from Trumpworld. My question is: does Trump keep the letter in the Oval or the residence?
āWorthless āadviceā from a failed president. No specifics. Just a bunch of vague words and concepts nobody could understand. They donāt have any meaning to me - except ācongratulations,ā āremarkable,ā and he thinks my āleadership is indispensableā after his failures. Bad (or sick) guy to leak this classified letter. CNN is fake news.ā
āCongratulations on a remarkable run,ā Obama wrote, according to CNN. āMillions have placed their hopes in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure.ā
Well, this is certainly working out well for everyone isnāt it?
Hey, he said āhopeā, not ātrustā.
@arrrrrj I think it was an aide or former staffer, but with Obamaās blessing. If not, heād still approve of the leak. EDIT: Whoops, the letter still existsā¦for now. Probably in the Oval Office.
Itās hard for me to imagine a more ridiculously fruitless exercise than Obama giving Trump advice. Itās akin to lecturing a tree stump on particle physics.