{"id":92632,"date":"2026-05-08T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ingraham-the-mask-is-off-obama-believes-the-only-way-to-beat-trump-and-maga-is-to-go-full-socialist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:42:19","slug":"ingraham-the-mask-is-off-obama-believes-the-only-way-to-beat-trump-and-maga-is-to-go-full-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ingraham-the-mask-is-off-obama-believes-the-only-way-to-beat-trump-and-maga-is-to-go-full-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham: The Mask Is Off, Obama Believes The Only Way To Beat Trump and MAGA Is To Go &#8220;Full Socialist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: Now Obama is the smartest one they have in the Democrat Party still, there&#8217;s no one that touches him, and even he could not stop Trump. So now Obama is relegated to going on some of these B list talk shows and pining away for the old days when Republicans just essentially agreed with him on everything.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)  BARACK OBAMA (D) 44TH U.S. PRESIDENT: I&#8217;m worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party. I&#8217;d love a loyal opposition. I&#8217;d love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, that didn&#8217;t agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff, but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and science and wasn&#8217;t constantly tapping into our worst impulses. And there has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.  (END VIDEO CLIP)  INGRAHAM: OK, Obama is worried. Did he talk about the rule of law, by the way? Yes, he&#8217;s worried. Yes, he&#8217;s worried that the DOJ will finally nail everyone who had a hand in Crossfire Hurricane, and that Brennan and Clapper will finally spill their guts about Obama&#8217;s role in it. That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s worried about. The nerve of him talking about the rule of law. His intel community spied on Trump and lied in their FISA applications, and he likes a loyal opposition. No, come on, he wants that old party back, the old GOP, yes, the party that got shellacked in 2006, in 2008 and in 2012. The mask is off.  A decade since he left office, Obama seems to think that the only way to beat Trump and MAGA is to go full socialist.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)  OBAMA: You look at somebody like Mamdani, who I think is an extraordinary talent. He wants people to be able to afford housing in New York.  STEPHEN COLBERT, LATE NIGHT SHOW HOST: He also, not only is he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he also, he names what is obviously wrong.  OBAMA: Yes.  (END VIDEO CLIP)  INGRAHAM: I love seeing those two spoon with Mamdani. Now the truth is, liberalism, it&#8217;s already failed. It&#8217;s failed in New York. It&#8217;s failed in Chicago, failed in St. Louis, failed in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, in Oakland, in Portland, in Seattle. The list goes on and on. But the red states, they&#8217;re booming. Their populations increasing, and Donald Trump remains the most powerful force in politics, not just here in the U.S., but worldwide.  And anyone, and I mean anyone trying to diminish him or MAGA is either willfully ignorant or just plain ignorant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/07\/ingraham_the_mask_is_off_obama_believes_the_only_way_to_beat_trump_and_maga_is_to_go_full_socialist.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: Now Obama is the smartest one they have in the Democrat Party still, there&#8217;s no one that touches him, and even he could not stop Trump. So now Obama is relegated to going on some of these B list talk shows and pining away for the old days when Republicans just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3203,6076,2156,20771,6450,15179,22,1897,11148,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}