Barack Obama

Bad Bunny's Halftime Show.

I knew you were going to say that.

Well, it resonated.

It was smart because it wasn't preaching.

It was showing.

It was demonstrating and displaying.

This is what a community is.

Former President Obama told progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen there's, quote, this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television.

He also said many Americans find this behavior deeply troubling.

On the immigration crackdown and protests in Minnesota and elsewhere, Obama said there is a good number of American people saying in response, quote, we're going to live up to those values that we say we believe in.

Shondalese Duster, NPR News.

I'm gonna be proposing some new community policing initiatives that will significantly expand funding and training for local law enforcement, including up to 50,000 additional body worn cameras for law enforcement agencies.

You know, I'm the president of the United States.

I'm not the emperor of the United States.

My job is to execute laws that are passed.

And Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.

And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic.

There are going to be some

stories that break our hearts and more importantly we're going to continue to have an economy that is stifled by a really inefficient system where not only uh are we deporting folks but we also have a legal immigration system that is so bottlenecked that it forces sometimes people into the illegal system you know i'm the president united states i'm not

puppet movement, it's not real, it's astroturf. I asked Obama about this in 2022 when we interviewed him. Here's what he had to say. When I think back to 2009, 2010, you guys will recall there was a big debate inside the White House about whether I should publicly affirm