Former President Barack Obama’s recent talk in Berlin Saturday was touted as focusing on “community leadership and civic engagement.” But his speech seemed to focus mainly on another topic: himself.
“You know, I was — I was a pretty busy guy. I’ve got to say. But I worked out every morning. I mean, I was pretty religious about it. I was in the gym,” were just a handful of the 392 references to himself by Obama in the speech according to Grabien News.
Obama delivered the almost 90-minute speech, including a question-and-answer session for his foundation. The speech was targeted at “emerging leaders.”
While the speech was meant to focus on community leadership, Obama spent large portions of the town hall focusing on himself and his accomplishments.
“One of the challenges that I had when I was a young organizer was I wanted change now and I wanted 100 percent of what I wanted and then I suddenly confront some politician,” said Obama, successfully using the word “I” six times in one sentence.
The 392 references in one speech is believed to be a new record for self-referencing by Obama beating a previous record back in 2016 when he referred to himself 171 times.
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