Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said former President Barack Obama’s self-centeredness is to blame for the disarray in the Democratic Party.
“I think that we should remember that the ‘I, me, I, me’ president presided over the collapse of his own party,” Gingrich said in a Fox News interview Monday. “They lost more state legislative seats, governorships, control of the U.S. House, control of the Senate. In a sense, that’s because, in the end, Barack Obama loved Barack Obama. The country sort of wanted somebody to actually deliver something.”
Gingrich’s jabs come after Obama made 392 references to himself during a talk on “community leadership and civic engagement” in Berlin over the weekend. “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 Obama made to himself.
The 392 figure 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.
The former House speaker, who ran for the 2012 Republican nomination before losing out to Mitt Romney, also lamented that the mainstream media framed Obama’s narrative in a way that kept him popular among Democrats.
“He presided over the biggest collapse of the Democratic Party in modern times but because of the news media, of course, you’d never quite know that,” Gingrich said.
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