Barack and I, we are all about creating what we call the attractive nuisance. We want to make it so that you want to be back here.”

Former Obama speechwriter David Litt suggested in a guest essay for The New York Times that ostracizing conservatives might be the wrong approach, detailing a personal acedote.

Whoopi Goldberg took aim at former President Obama and billionaire investor Mark Cuban for criticizing the way Democrats have been responding to various actions and policy initiatives undertaken

Rahm Emanuel, former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, issued a call to action for the Democratic Party on Monday. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Emanuel said that Democrats need to make the middle class their “North Star,” and encouraged the party to “work like dogs” to make the American Dream more accessible.

Navarro argued that Obama’s tone and status in the party have changed dramatically since his time as president, arguing his lecture to donors at an event in New Jersey was tone deaf.

Obama's alma mater, Columbia University, gave in to the administration's demands after it slashed $400 million in federal funding. The Trump administration said the cuts were because of the university's failure to combat anti-semitism when protests over Israel's war in Gaza erupted on campus.