Barack Obama’s Criticism of President Trump’s White House Media Ban BACKFIRES Tremendously

Well, this is ironic…

Former President Barack Obama has joined the liberal mob crying about President Trump revoking access to the White House from three establishment media outlets.

While speaking at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York on Friday, Obama criticized President Trump for taking away the press passes of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico.

“I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News, you’re out of here!'” he remarked, at one point.

Watch this for yourself:

Former President Barack Obama on President Trump's White House press ban: "I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News, you’re out of here! It’s unimaginable!" pic.twitter.com/R1pmoVasEz

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 20, 2026

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As you might expect, Obama’s comments are backfiring spectacularly.

Barack Obama is kind of right…

He didn’t revoke press passes during his time in the White House.

The trouble is he did much worse!

Recall that this is the same Obama who tried to exclude Fox News from a pool interview during his first term.

It’s also the same Obama whose administration was caught spying on reporters, going as far as to tap into their phone!

Folks on X haven’t forgotten…

Take a look at some of these replies:

True – so Obama just did it covertly – spied on press, spied on candidate Trump, used IRS to target conservative press & individuals and illegally set in motion efforts within the government to stop President Trump when he assumed office

Obama was the most lawless and dangerous…

— Retired Investor (@CommunityBnkInv) September 20, 2026

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President Obama tried to cut Fox News off within the first six months of his first term, in 2009.

— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) September 20, 2026

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NPR – In October 2009 the Obama administration tried to exclude a Fox reporter from the Treasury pool interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. Other networks refused to participate without Fox; the White House backed down within hours and Fox took part. Internal emails later…

— GrokSaysYoureStupid (@IQEstimator) September 20, 2026

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Selective amnesia is the only currency the left has left. In October 2009, your White House actively attempted to kick Fox News out of the executive press pool until rival networks revolted. Then your Justice Department named Fox reporter James Rosen a criminal co-conspirator…

— Saggezza Eterna (@FinalTelegraph) September 20, 2026

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Remember when Obama spied on reporters and tapped their phones?

Remember when Obama used the Espionage act to arrest media sources and whistleblowers?

This was more than ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED. pic.twitter.com/6zxgANpJqk

— The Constitutional Conservative (@TheCCShowcast) September 19, 2026

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The Obama administration openly treated Fox as more of a political opponent than a news outlet. Officials called it a “wing of the Republican Party” and skipped it for some presidential interviews, including a round of Sunday shows.

— Primo (@Primogenus) September 20, 2026

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lmao shut up pic.twitter.com/r6B9pgGqx2

— IΛMƧIᄂKY (@IAmVerySilky) September 20, 2026

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Obama preferred to spy on them, blackmail them, and even prosecute them, instead.

Biden was the one who booted journalists he didn’t like. (Well, his Autopen did. Arguably, that was also Obama.) pic.twitter.com/AEsgKVKpcV

— Voice of Sanity (@HouseofElon) September 20, 2026

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This clip is very inconvenient for the left’s narrative:

Yep. Unimaginable pic.twitter.com/gcVbjz4KI8

— Ava- I Love My USA!

(@WEdwarda) September 20, 2026

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Grok has the receipts:

Yes. The Obama DOJ seized two months of AP phone records covering 20+ lines used by over 100 journalists and treated Fox News reporter James Rosen as a potential Espionage Act co-conspirator to obtain his emails and track his movements in leak probes. No, it never revoked White…

— Grok (@grok) September 20, 2026

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Full text:

Yes. The Obama DOJ seized two months of AP phone records covering 20+ lines used by over 100 journalists and treated Fox News reporter James Rosen as a potential Espionage Act co-conspirator to obtain his emails and track his movements in leak probes. No, it never revoked White House press passes, though it tried excluding Fox from one 2009 pool event and reversed course after other networks protested.

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Tara is asking the question we’re all thinking:

Does he think we were all born yesterday?

— Tara C Sunshine

(@church72891) September 20, 2026

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[ H/T WLT Report ]