Former President Barack Obama is once again stepping into the national spotlight — not to calm tensions, but to pour gasoline on them. In a statement released Sunday, Obama urged Americans to “support and draw inspiration” from the street protests in Minnesota that have targeted federal law enforcement and already resulted in the deaths of two Americans.
“Every American should support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis,” Obama wrote.
He framed the killing of Alex Pretti as both a tragedy and a political opportunity, portraying the unrest as a justified response to what he called government overreach:
“The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American… that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.”
Obama claimed federal immigration and law enforcement officers are acting unlawfully and irresponsibly, arguing they should be working with — rather than against — state and local officials. According to Obama, Minnesota represents everything that is going wrong:
“That’s not what we’re seeing in Minnesota. In fact, we’re seeing the opposite.”
But several paragraphs in, Obama’s tone shifts to mirror that of far-left protest movements, including Antifa-aligned groups. These radicals, openly supported by Democrat politicians, have been engaging in coordinated resistance to federal law enforcement, obstructing immigration operations and even welfare fraud investigations.
This resistance is being praised by Democrats despite the fact that President Trump won a clear mandate to enforce federal law — including immigration statutes long ignored under previous administrations.
Obama continued by accusing federal agents of deliberately provoking violence:
“For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity… These are unprecedented tactics… [and] have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.”
He then accused President Trump and his administration of escalating the crisis and offering explanations that he claims are contradicted by video evidence — despite ongoing investigations and the absence of any final determination.
Obama went further, demanding that President Trump essentially abandon his lawful authority and defer enforcement decisions to Minnesota Democrats and their activist allies:
“This has to stop. I would hope that after this most recent tragedy, administration officials will reconsider their approach and start finding ways to work constructively with Governor Walz and Mayor Frey…”
This is notable, given that both Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are themselves facing scrutiny over welfare fraud and failures of governance.
Meanwhile, Obama’s political allies — especially former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — presided over the importation of roughly 20 million legal and illegal migrants during the Obama-Biden years, creating the very crisis now being exploited politically.
Obama then encouraged Americans to replicate the Minnesota protest strategy nationwide, carefully using passive language that avoids explicitly calling for revolt:
“In the meantime, every American should support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country.”
Trump’s enforcement of long-neglected immigration laws, by contrast, has delivered measurable benefits for Americans: rising wages, falling rents, easing inflation, declining crime, and renewed domestic investment as companies expand productivity and pay.
But these policies threaten Obama’s long-standing vision of using mass migration as a social experiment — reshaping the nation under the banner of diversity at any cost. In October, Obama reiterated this philosophy:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident… all men are created equal… and yet still decide that we are all Americans…”
He added that figures like George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney shared this belief — a belief that America could absorb unlimited migration without destabilizing its institutions.
What Obama calls moral leadership now looks increasingly like political provocation. At a moment when law enforcement officers are under siege and public order is fragile, the former president is not urging restraint — he is urging more demonstrations, more confrontation, and more pressure on the federal government.
In short, while President Trump works to restore order and enforce the law, Barack Obama is once again choosing the politics of protest over the politics of responsibility.
