Obama: Fox, Limbaugh created 'character named Barack Obama'

President Obama said Fox News and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh helped to convert some of his former supporters into fans of President-elect Trump by creating a caricature of Obama.

“When people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they’re responding to this character that they’re seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents. And so you don’t take it personally,” Obama said during an October interview with the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates that was published Wednesday.