The Worst President in History Quotes

“Despite the many potential national security threats that we faced, Obama did significant damage to our military, in terms of size, readiness, effectiveness, and power.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“When Obama wasn’t busy distancing himself from allies or savagely curtailing our military battle readiness, he was cozying up to long-time enemies of the U.S., of human rights, and of liberty.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“We’ve shown how Obama placed himself at the center of every issue and treated half the country like his mortal enemies. The divisiveness and negativity of his governing style was bad enough, but his egocentrism also led to a myopic sequence of terrible domestic policy choices driven by ideology over pragmatism.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“If Obamacare is great, why would anyone want a waiver, and why would the government grant them one? It’s a fair question, seeing as 1,231 companies, employing just under four million people, received waivers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.24 Most federal employees got waivers too.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“When Donald Trump arrived, he turned over control of the Iraqi theater to Secretary of Defense “Madman” Maddux and told him to do whatever he thought would win the war against ISIS. Less than a year later, coalition forces drove the terrorists out of their last stronghold in Iraq and surrounded them in small pockets within Syria. As of this writing, the group is, for all intents and purposes, destroyed, forever underscoring what a pathetic, feckless strategy Obama employed.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“The United States lost four thousand lives and spent around $800 billion in Iraq over an eight-year period to bring peace, stability, and freedom to the beleaguered nation. Because President Obama did not take Iraq seriously, viewing it as no more than a Bush mistake, all the blood, treasure, and effort we expended in Iraq nearly went to waste.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“Not until Trump took the reins did the bleeding stop.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“Obama was partially right, though. America’s credibility worldwide was on the line, but, as president and commander in chief, the damage done to America’s credibility was his fault and responsibility. His misguided provision of weapons to Syrian rebels handed material to ISIS.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“In February 2014, Obama’s own Secretary of State, John Kerry, admitted that Obama’s Syria policy was a failure.132”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“The White House acknowledged the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in various sites outside Damascus on August 21, 2013, a year and one day after Obama’s “red line” speech. That attack killed more than 1,400 people.123 Obama, by his own words, had to do something. What followed was nothing less than an embarrassing display of incompetence, with the entire world watching.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“In short, Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a stable, albeit repressive country that had been an ally in the fight against terrorism and turned it into a breeding ground for the most radical of jihadis in a feeble attempt at nation-building. The Obama/Clinton misadventure was everything many disliked about the war in Iraq only much, much worse. Unlike Iraq, Obama committed U.S. forces for the intervention in Libya without a congressional declaration of war, violating the War Powers Act of 1973.117 Libya, like Iraq, suffered greatly at the hands of Obama’s foreign policy decisions, turning the once stable and prosperous country into a terrorist haven.118”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“In 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act, which imposed sanctions on countries whose governments used child soldiers. Despite the law, several countries using child soldiers continued receiving military assistance under Obama.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“When the United States mutes its support for human rights and gives legitimacy to tyrants by treating them as rational, civilized members of the world community, freedom fighters get discouraged—and tyrants are more apt to be brutal, as they become convinced that the United States won’t interfere.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“After winning his second term, Obama made trips to Burma and Cambodia—two nations long run by brutal, tyrannical regimes. People who cared about human rights were appalled by the action.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“Donald Trump took a different approach upon his arrival and, as of this writing, increased military spending by about 3 percent and placed the emphasis back on battlefield readiness, but it may be too little, too late. He has his work cut for him—it should never have come to this.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“Heritage Foundation military expert Dakota Wood said the military was in a “death spiral” following Obama-era spending cuts.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“After damaging America’s alliances, encouraging America’s enemies, and helping turn the world into a roiling cauldron of hatred, fear and resentment, Obama’s coup de grâce was hollowing out our military.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“But Obama took a different approach. He cut defense budgets to spend the money elsewhere. The bulk of his defense cuts fell on development and procurement. All told, 40 percent of Obama’s defense cuts came from this area.96 Obama wasn’t only tormenting our troops with his personal agenda or putting them at risk with bad foreign policy; he defanged them and stole their capability to defend themselves in combat.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“To ensure that our service members go into battle with the very best weapons and equipment possible, the U.S. budgets a significant amount of discretionary spending toward the development and procurement of equipment and weapons.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“America’s armed forces must be the best fighting force in the world, equipped to outfight, outwit, and outlast any who would oppose them. With Barack Obama as commander in chief, the military instead became the latest place where the most bizarre and absurd ideas of liberal political correctness took root with no thought to how such actions might affect our ability to fight and win a war.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“George W. Bush’s initiative to fight AIDS around the world, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), saved millions of lives in Africa and elsewhere. From the program’s launch in 2003 to the time Bush left office, the number of HIV-infected people in Africa getting proper treatment went from fewer than fifty thousand to two million. 19 His efforts didn’t go unnoticed by the people of the African continent. When President Bush took a farewell tour of Africa near the end of his second term, massive crowds of grateful Africans cheered for him. 20 Despite massive spending increases spearheaded by Obama, he cut funding for PEPFAR21 and deprived hundreds of thousands of people around of treatment. This inexplicable decision had a devastating effect on Africa, where most AIDS deaths occur. 22 The AIDS Healthcare Foundation was highly critical of Obama’s cuts, which came after he had promised to expand the fight against AIDS months earlier: “This latest action merely confirms what people with HIV/ AIDS and their advocates have long suspected—the President simply is not committed to fighting global AIDS. Coming on the heels of the President’s flowery rhetoric last December, the cynicism is simply breathtaking,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which provides free HIV/ AIDS medical care to over 125,000 people in 26 countries abroad. 23 The lesson for Africans: American friendship was fickle and patronizing and they couldn’t trust our promises. And we wonder why ISIS propaganda was so attractive to North Africans.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama

“Obama is not alone in his support of amnesty for illegal immigrants. But releasing convicted violent criminals who entered the United States illegally is not in the best interest of American citizens—this should not be a controversial position. Yet Obama, in his quest for amnesty, did just that.”
― Matt Margolis, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama