Barack Obama Comes For The Neck!

Better days.

We miss you Barack Obama. You're a legend and a true president.

Being President of the United States should be a honor for some people. Donald J. Trump, doesn't seem to understand that.

At the University of Illinois-Urbana, former president Barack Obama comes out swinging against Trump, Fox News and the status quo. He was encouraging the youth vote (18-30 years old).



Trump claims he fell asleep listening to it. Yeah, like people want to watch your ass on television.

The speech before more than a thousand students at the university was a preview of the message Obama will carry into the midterm elections. But it also represented the former President's most comprehensive condemnation of Republicans in Washington and the first time he has publicly criticized Trump by name in a speech.

"You happen to be coming of age" amid backlash to progress, Obama told the students. "It did not start with Donald Trump, he is a symptom, not the cause. He is just capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years. A fear, an anger that is rooted in our past but is also borne in our enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes."

Obama spent a sizable portion of his remarks criticizing Republicans in Congress, saying "the politics of resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party" over the last few decades and argued that the policies GOP leaders are pursuing aren't conservative.

The belly flop.

At one point, a seemingly exasperated Obama openly questioned what happened with the Republican Party, noting that one of their early organizing principles was standing up to communism.

"What happened to the Republican Party?" he said. "Its central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against communism and now they are cozying up to the former head of the KGB, actively blocking legislation that would defend our elections from Russia attack. What happened?"

He added: "I don't mean to pretend I am channeling Abraham Lincoln, but that is not what he had in mind, I think, when he helped form the Republican Party. It is not conservative, it sure isn't normal. It is radical. It is a vision that says the protection of our power and those that back us is all the matters even when it hurts the country."

Trump responded in kind without picking it up on Twitter. He was campaign for a Republican candidate who is running for U.S. Senate. The senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) is endangered and Trump is working on helping her opponent win.