Their former boss is also presumed to be in a bad mood, but mostly because his wife hates him
The mediocre white men who served as top advisers to failed president Barack Obama threw embarrassing tantrums on Saturday in response to the successful U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Thomas Frederick Vietor IV, the lacrosse-playing frat bro and Pod Save America cohost, led the charge with a series of increasingly unhinged posts on X. He was egged on by Pod Save America cohost, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, as well as Ben Rhodes, the former Iranian nuclear czar, and some other guy named Dan Pfeiffer.
Vietor praised the Iranian nuclear deal, one of the most controversial parts of Obama’s failed legacy, which provided sanctions relief and billions of dollars to the terrorist-funding regime. In exchange, the Iranians promised to be nice and to wait a few years before building a nuclear weapon. “Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was working until Trump pulled out of it,” Vietor seethed. “Well, now we’re at war with Iran because Trump is weak, stupid and hated Obama more than he cared about preventing Iran from getting a nuke.”
The boy-faced Obama bro warned of dire consequences if Iran is not allowed to pursue its nuclear ambitions. “Iran might retaliate today, tomorrow or in months,” Vietor wailed. “Or a year from now, Iran or its proxies might blow up a bus filled with American tourists in Cyprus. No one knows what comes next.” The Obama bros made similarly dire predictions in 2020 after Trump took out Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American service members. “There’s too much throat-clearing about what a bad guy Soleimani was,” Vietor said at the time. Alas, World War III was averted.
In 2018, Vietor blamed the Jews for “cooking up” false intel (without evidence) to persuade Trump to bomb Iran. He appeared to reiterate this claim on Saturday, accusing Trump of being “manipulated into doing Netanyahu’s dirty work” and “fighting a war for a lying, corrupt, racist foreign leader.” As a result, the lives of “millions of Americans” are at risk, Vietor ranted. “Sleep tight, everyone!” Favreau was apparently too distraught to share his thoughts, but he reposted most of Vietor’s diatribe via his X account. So did Pfieffer, who complained that the talking heads on CNN were being too mean to Iran.
Rhodes has been inconsolable since Israel started bombing his friends in the Iranian regime, denouncing the Jewish state’s campaign to degrade Iran’s nuclear capability as “an utterly pointless, dangerous, and immoral action.” He waited until almost midnight EDT on Saturday to post an absurdly disingenuous complaint about Trump’s refusal to obtain congressional authorization before ordering the strike on Iran. “If your take is ‘I oppose Trump’s fascism but support him lawlessly bombing this other country’ maybe pause and give that a think,” said Rhodes, who is widely regarded as the architect of the Iran nuclear deal.
As one observer remarked, Rhodes’s lament about legality was “bullshit.” Rhodes is the one who famously coined the nonsense term “kinetic military action” to explain why the Obama administration did not seek congressional authorization in 2011 before launching military strikes in Libya that led to the death of Muammar Qaddafi. The airstrikes on Libya were “within the president’s constitutional authority,” Rhodes wrote in his 500-page memoir. Obama used the military to conduct strikes in foreign countries on numerous occasions without asking Congress to approve, including one in Yemen that killed a U.S. citizen in 2011.
The Obama bros were livid, of course, when Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. Rhodes, whose intense hatred of Israel earned him the nickname “Hamas” in the Obama White House, warned of “dangerous” consequences. He has since argued (implausibly) that Trump’s decision was “directly” responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack orchestrated by Hamas, an Iranian-funded proxy. Ryan Wesley Routh, the deranged liberal who tried to assassinate Trump in September 2024, echoed the inflammatory rhetoric from Rhodes and his fellow Obama bros in a manifesto outlining his motivations. “[Trump] ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled,” Routh wrote in a letter obtained by authorities. The failed assassin had previously urged Iran to “assassinate Trump as well as me.”
The Iran nuclear agreement was the signature achievement of Rhodes’s career. “There are very few things I’ve ever been a part of that I believe in more than the Iran deal,” he said in 2017. Rhodes, who also played a key role in the Obama administration’s efforts to appease the communist dictatorship in Cuba, bragged to the New York Times about creating an “echo chamber” of support for the deal by manipulating journalists who “literally know nothing.”
On election night in 2016, Rhodes cried like a bitch after Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was announced. Several weeks later, he attended Fidel Castro’s funeral alongside his mourning comrades from Iran.
Obama has yet to post on social media since commemorating the “Juneteeth” holiday last week. He is also presumed to be in a bad mood, but that is mostly due to the fact that his wife Michelle clearly hates him and recently said she was “so glad” she never had a son because “he would have been a Barack Obama.”
