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‘The Constant Nonsense’: Obama Finally Responds After Trump Drags His Name Into Yet Another ‘Outrageous’ Conspiracy—and He Doesn’t Hold Back
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Grace Jidoun | Published on: July 22, 2025
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It was only five years ago that President
Donald Trump revived the long-debunked “Obamagate” conspiracy theory, falsely accusing former President
Barack Obama of treason for allegedly spying on him.
Now, Trump is at it again. Posting a fake AI-generated video depicting a Black man’s arrest to stir outrage, doubling down on calls for Obama to be prosecuted, and reviving claims of a so-called “deep state coup.”
But this time, Obama is firing back. In a rare public statement through his spokesperson, Patrick Rodenbush, Obama’s office blasted Trump’s comments as “outrageous” and “a weak attempt at distraction,” saying the former president typically avoids responding to the “constant nonsense” coming from Trump’s White House.
Obama and Trump are at odds as the president tries to deflect from Epstein scandal. (Getty Images)
Tulsi Gabbard,
Trump’s director of national intelligence, wants Obama and several of his administration officials to be criminally prosecuted for “
treasonous conspiracy” in connection with Trump’s 2016 election, referring to it as a “years-long coup.”
A declassified intelligence report, released on July 18 by ODNI, claimed that Obama officials “manipulated and withheld” key findings from the public regarding possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite growing evidence to the contrary.
The accusation is being widely debunked by politicians and pundits, with Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
calling it “baseless.” Skeptics are flooding social media with their reactions, some suggesting it’s another tactic to distract the public from a pressing scandal: the
release of the Epstein files.
Way back in September 2024, Trump promised to release the Epstein files if he won the election, but he has continued to kick the can down the road, and recently scapegoated Obama. On July 15, he told a Fox News reporter that Obama and former FBI Director James Comey simply “made up the files.”
Commenters on social media pounced on the theory: “FACT CHECK: The first federal Epstein probe was under George W. Bush. The second? July 2019 – UNDER TRUMP. Obama had ZERO to do with it,”
wrote the account Call To Activism.
Then, in a
bizarre social media post on July 20, Trump shared an AI-generated clip showing Obama being forced to his knees and handcuffed in the Oval Office while Trump sat beside him smiling. The video cuts to Obama walking dejectedly around a jail, with the caption “No one is above the law!” The popular account, Republicans Against Trump, flagged the outrageous clip as another attempt to distract the public.
“Donald Trump just posted a video of former President Obama getting arrested. Anything to distract from the Epstein files…”
read the caption.
The internet exploded with many calling out the obvious dog whistle.
“This is not funny. It is particularly disgusting to show an innocent Black person getting arrested–particularly one who has spent a lifetime trying to overcome the stereotypes that racists like Trump favor,” one user wrote on X. One even called for his impeachment, “The ignorant bully must me impeached!”
Another user added, “of course he reposts a video of a black man getting arrested…” with a quick response from another commenter, “Oh the racism is starting to show…..”
Others had a field day with Trump’s obsession with Obama.
Obama’s team, which rarely comments directly on Trump’s provocations, issued a statement that condemned the latest accusations and attempts at deflection.
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,” said spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush.
He added that the declassified report Trump cited does not dispute the consensus that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election, but did not alter any votes.
“These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
This direct rebuke from Obama’s office comes as Trump and his allies, particularly Gabbard, ramp up claims of a “coup” against his presidency.
Gabbard’s “
Russian Hoax Memo” led with the claim that there was “no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count” in the 2016 election. But the Obama administration never contended that Russian hackers manipulated votes, according to
The New York Times, which explained that the report conflated two different things: Russian hacking into voter systems and Russian influence operations, such as fake social media accounts, that tried to sway public opinion.
Brian Krassenstein, a political commentator and outspoken critic of Trump, labeled the report a “false narrative” in
an X post, writing, “The most ironic thing is that Tulsi Gabbard is doing the exact thing that she’s claiming Obama did (even though he didn’t), which she claims is ‘Treason.’ She is Manufacturing a false narrative to politicize a report. Maybe Gabbard should be arrested.”
Gabbard is committed to the narrative, however, and on her X account the day of the report’s release,
she wrote, “Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
In her official announcement that she was turning over the report to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, she exclaimed, “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Trump was still at it this morning
during a live taping at the White House when he was again asked about Epstein and he deflected.
“I don’t really follow that too much. It’s sort of a witch hunt. Just a continuation of the witch hunt. The witch hunt that you should be talking about is that they caught President Obama absolutely cold … They tried to rig the election and they got caught and there should be severe consequences for that.”