Former President Barack Obama is finally weighing in on the racist video shared by the sitting president—and he’s not buying the outrage machine driving it.
Obama, 64, addressed the controversy in a sit-down interview with journalist Brian Tyler Cohen published on Saturday. Instead of directly discussing the clip posted on 79-year-old President Donald Trump’s social media account, the former president used the moment to call out what he described as a broader collapse in political discourse.
Cohen didn’t ease the 44th president into the topic. He broached the subject by arguing that public rhetoric has “devolved into a level of cruelty that we haven’t seen before,” noting that behavior once considered “disqualifying just a few years ago” is now not only tolerated—but “rewarded.”
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