Discussion: WATCH LIVE: Obama Delivers First Public Speech Post-Presidency At 12 PM ET

Please good sir, don’t mention Trump by name during your speech. That will drive him crazier than he already is - he wants everyone talking about him. You can mention some of his idiocy but don’t mention his name once.

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Well, this is going to get under Velveeta Voldemort’s molecularly thin skin like a million genetically engineered chiggers. Two day tweetrum imminent.

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I am looking forward to this. Listening to all the stupidity we have now, a speech from PRESIDENT Obama will be as refreshing as jumping into a pool on a hot, sweltering summer day.

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YAY! Something worth listening to on this gloomy Monday!

How I miss this man, his family, his administration…

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Here comes class, sanity & intelligence, a rare thingy since Jan 20…

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INT. DARK BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING

Tiny, Cheeto-crusted fingers begin typing on a smartphone.

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How could anyone not ask the President what he thinks of the pretender. He’ll be nimble enough to sidestep direct criticism, but the noise machine will do what it’s always done.

Aides have said Mr. Obama does not intend to use his platform to directly challenge President Trump, despite his successor’s aggressive efforts to reverse many of Mr. Obama’s legacy-making accomplishments.

Mr. Obama wants to talk with the young people onstage at the elite school about civic engagement, community organizing and the importance of not withdrawing from the challenges facing society.

But the young people will be free to ask whatever they want, and they might choose to press the former president on topics like immigration, climate change or racial justice — all areas where anything Mr. Obama says is likely to be interpreted as a critique of Mr. Trump.

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Better a tweetrum than a bombrum.

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True. Even granting that, if Russians are in the vicinity, his bombrums tend to be relatively harmless, they’re still expensive.

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There is going to be a Q&A after, I hope no one asks about the current disgrace in the WH

Oh shit…this will take him well into the weekend where he’ll be by himself still stewing in his own juice.

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Barack Ob Am a rocks.

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I don’t but considering the circumstances, and so that you may find some enjoyment today after almost 100 days of anger, despair, depression and insomnia, I’ll keep my big mouth shut. But I’m sure there will be an epic Tweet Storm that will go all week. This may be the week that breaks Trump.

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On his campaign plane, Trump watched television on full volume — usually Fox News, sometimes CNN — almost constantly, said someone who flew with him, shushing his aides whenever he himself came on the screen and listening with rapt attention. When Hillary Clinton appeared, he’d similarly quiet his team, often before pointing a finger at the TV and scolding: “She’s lying! She’s lying!”

Trump turns on the television almost as soon as he wakes, then checks in periodically throughout the day in the small dining room off the Oval Office, and continues late into the evening when he’s back in his private residence. “Once he goes upstairs, there’s no managing him,” said one adviser.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-tunes-in-inside-trumps-obsession-with-cable-tv/2017/04/23/3c52bd6c-25e3-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?utm_term=.cf4bb8e7c8bb&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Anyone else having video difficulties? Mine has stopped twice now … still out. Oops, now back.

Gerrymandering, very true, President Obama.

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STUPID TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT!

I almost forgot what intelligence and empathy in a President sounded like.
94 days of Trump’s dumbfuckery makes it feel like years already.

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