“It’s not as if we didn’t see some of this coming,” said Barack Obama, a note of bleak humour in his voice. “I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!”

The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned. “I did,” Obama added. “You can run the tape.”

Now Obama is back on the campaign trail, for Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. It gives him a platform to deliver an alternative State of the Union address. And the gloves are off.

To hear the expectant buzz of the 7,000-plus crowd in Norfolk as candidate Abigail Spanberger promised that Obama’s entrance was just moments away was to be reminded that Democrats did once have a president who could match Trump’s superstar charisma.

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    1 day ago

    Man, the Russian disinfo hubs really want to shutdown anything Obama has to say don’t they… Anyone without a vast deficit of logic should be able to spot the contradictions though. How anyone with a brain can look at the wholesale greed led destruction of America that Trump is doing and then say that Obama is the real problem is just bonkers. I suppose it just shows how threatened they are by him.