{"id":6701,"date":"2017-02-28T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2017-02-01T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:04:17","slug":"linked-obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/linked-obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3269,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/magazine\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/28\\\/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251002140420\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/magazine\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/28\\\/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:35:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-02 10:19:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 13:59:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 01:22:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 02:19:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 19:18:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-19 23:44:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 07:16:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 23:51:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 03:23:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 06:46:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 06:46:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/11\/28\/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I was standing to the side of the stage. Nearby, a stout older man appeared in the aisle, dressed in a worn, beribboned military uniform and holding a Trump sign. People spotted him quickly and the jeering began. Then came the chant \u201cHil-la-ry! Hil-la-ry!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Obama picked up the curdled vibe and located its source. \u201cHold up!\u201d he said. \u201cHold up!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The crowd would not quiet down. He repeated the phrase\u2014\u201cHold up!\u201d\u2014sixteen more times, and still nothing. It took a long, disturbing while before he could recapture the crowd\u2019s attention and get people to lay off the old man. What followed was a lecture in political civility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m serious, listen up,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got an older gentleman who is supporting his candidate. . . . You don\u2019t have to worry about him. This is what I mean about folks not being focussed. First of all, we live in a country that respects free speech. Second of all, it looks like maybe he might have served in our military, and we\u2019ve got to respect that. Third of all, he was elderly, and we\u2019ve got to respect our elders. . . . Now, I want you to pay attention. Because if we don\u2019t, if we lose focus, we could have problems.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That night in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump informed his supporters that in Fayetteville Obama had been abusive to the protester: \u201cHe spent so much time screaming at this protester and, frankly, it was a disgrace.\u201d Either Trump was retailing an account he\u2019d found online in the alt-right media or he was knowingly lying. In other words, Trump was Trump.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Now, on the eve of the election, nothing was in the bag. \u201cWhat\u2019s powerful is that ideas can change on a dime,\u201d Obama said as we pulled up to Air Force One. \u201cPublic attitudes can be shaped and shift so radically. Two years ago, Hillary Clinton\u2019s popularity was at sixty-five per cent, and people were contrasting her popularity with mine. There was all this talk about how she was going to need to find ways to distance herself from me. Now, suddenly, she has problems with public opinion. Part of it is, I\u2019m less the focus. But it all happens so fast. This is a puzzle I\u2019m going to be thinking about a lot. I have complete confidence in the American people\u2014that if I can have a conversation with them they\u2019ll choose what\u2019s right. At an emotional level, they want to do the right thing if they have the information.\u201d And yet in an age of filter bubbles and social-media silos, he knew, the \u201cinformation\u201d that reached people was increasingly shaped by what they wanted to be true. And that was no longer in his hands or anyone else\u2019s.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a very long piece but worth sitting down and reading. From what I\u2019ve seen so far, our outgoing President has been very classy and respectful. As the unofficial leader of the Democratic party, he could act like a child and stomp his feet but he\u2019s chosen to reinforce the beautiful nature of our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>I fully agree that social media algorithms are damaging the need for an informed society. If we don\u2019t hear the opinions from all sides and live in our bubbles crafted by algorithms, more people are going to be surprised when someone that isn\u2019t their candidate of choice wins. It will happen again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The New Yorker: I was standing to the side of the stage. Nearby, a stout older man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-02-28T19:03:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"cb0802cd-33bb-47b2-870f-3ef494d0f0c7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-02-28T19:03:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AywgCzTO7R7KHDz70lNDwxw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1K5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6786,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/linked-the-white-house-flickr-account-just-changed-hands-from-obama-to-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":6701,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The White House Flickr Account Just Changed Hands from Obama to Trump&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via PetaPixel: If and when Trump does appoint a White House photographer, the Flickr account is waiting for him. Currently it\u2019s conspicuously empty, displaying only a default header image, the White House profile photo, and the message \u201cThe White House hasn\u2019t made any photos public yet.\u201d I loved all of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6639,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/linked-the-last-from-obama-and-the-first-from-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":6701,"position":1},"title":"Linked: The Last from Obama and the First from Trump","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t watch or listen to speeches usually. I try to find the transcript and read because I retain more and it\u2019s much faster when you\u2019re not dealing with pause and applause. I enjoyed reading Obama\u2019s last speech -\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/obama-farewell-address-speech.html?_r=0 and Donald Trump\u2019s first -\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/01\/20\/donald-trumps-full-inauguration-speech-transcript-annotated\/ Technically, this was Obama\u2019s last -\u00a0http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/01\/full-text-obama-farewell-speech-transcript-233916\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4368,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/linked-fans-scramble-for-ipod-classic-the-music-player-apple-killed-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":6701,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Fans scramble for iPod Classic, the music player Apple killed off&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Guardian: With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions of the 160GB Classic \u2013 which can hold around 40,000 songs \u2013 are being sold as new via Amazon for up to \u00a3670. 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