Obama Exploits Kirk’s Death to Attack Trump, Whitewash His Own Radical Legacy

Former President Barack Obama once again proved that the left cannot let a tragedy go to waste. Speaking Tuesday at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania, Obama attempted to rewrite history while exploiting the assassination of conservative Christian leader Charlie Kirk to attack President Trump and the conservative movement.

Obama, seated onstage with Steve Scully, briefly mourned Kirk’s murder, calling it “horrific.” But he could not resist lacing his remarks with lies and distortions, dredging up a list of supposed “controversial” comments by Kirk — including a provably false smear that Kirk had ever said black women were “stupid.”

The distortion was deliberate, and it served Obama’s larger purpose: to frame Trump’s defense of Kirk’s legacy as somehow an excuse to “silence discussion around who we are as a country.”

This is classic Obama. The same man who spent his presidency deepening divisions, stoking racial resentment, and elevating radical ideologues now dares to lecture Americans about “extremism.”

Obama claimed Tuesday that “those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them.” That, however, is patently false.

From the very beginning of his political career, Obama encouraged confrontation and division. On the 2008 campaign trail, he instructed supporters to “argue with [neighbors], get in their face.” As president, he openly supported the Occupy Wall Street protests — a movement riddled with violence, destruction, and anti-American rhetoric.

Perhaps most insulting of all, Obama used Kirk’s death to attack Trump directly, painting the President as an enabler of extremism while holding up so-called “moderate Republicans” like Utah Gov. Spencer Cox as the ideal alternative.

But this is laughable, coming from a man who once humiliated Paul Ryan, then-chairman of the House Budget Committee, by inviting him to a speech on entitlement reform — only to publicly condemn him while Ryan sat in the audience. Obama later admitted he regretted the stunt, yet today shows no remorse about fueling a political culture where the left increasingly justifies violence against conservatives.

The reality is clear: it is not the right, but the left, that consistently embraces violence and intimidation. From Antifa riots to BLM chaos, from the harassment of Supreme Court justices at their homes to the targeting of conservatives on campuses, the left has normalized political violence.

Obama’s comments in Erie were nothing more than projection. By smearing Kirk, attacking Trump, and sanctimoniously claiming moral superiority, he tried once again to shift blame away from the radical legacy he himself created.

But Americans remember. They remember the riots, the division, the endless identity politics, and the destructive forces unleashed under Obama’s watch. And they see through his attempt to rewrite history while desecrating the memory of a murdered conservative leader.

Charlie Kirk stood for faith, family, and freedom — principles the left despises because they unify America under God rather than divide it under grievance. Obama may try to tarnish his legacy, but the truth speaks louder than the lies of the left.