Barack Obama thought he could score cheap political points against President Trump, but Roseanne Barr just blew the lid off his hypocrisy.
On Thursday, Obama lashed out at the Trump Administration after ABC’s late-night propagandist Jimmy Kimmel was yanked off the air for lying about Charlie Kirk’s assassin.
Kimmel had the audacity to tell millions of viewers that Kirk was murdered by a “MAGA conservative.”
That grotesque lie was too much even for ABC affiliates. Nexstar Media and Sinclair Group announced Wednesday that they were removing Kimmel from their lineup.
Disney followed suit, confirming to Fox News Digital that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been pulled “indefinitely.”
Instead of condemning Kimmel’s lies, Obama rushed to his defense, whining that Trump’s America is supposedly weaponizing “cancel culture.”
“After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it. https://t.co/gOjqFnGv0I
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 18, 2025
That’s when Roseanne Barr torched him.
Barr, who was canceled overnight in 2018 for a single tweet, reminded the world that it was the Obamas who helped destroy her career.
“Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?” Barr fired back.
Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired? https://t.co/w5BcJ1bsLC
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) September 18, 2025
In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine in 2019, Barr revealed that Michelle Obama personally pressured ABC executives to axe her.
Former ABC president Channing Dungey, who carried out her firing, worked directly with the Obamas at Netflix.
Barr has never denied that her tweet about Valerie Jarrett was “stupid.” But she insists it was intended to highlight the Obama administration’s cozy ties with Iran, not to smear Jarrett’s race.
Barr also said her firing wasn’t just about one tweet, it was about silencing a Trump supporter, and a working-class woman who dared to back President Trump.
This is a pattern of cancel culture. Conservatives have been targeted and canceled by the same leftist mob:
- Gina Carano — fired from The Mandalorian for “wrongthink.”
- Megyn Kelly — fired by NBC for Halloween costume commentary.
- Dave Chappelle — targeted by Netflix employees for “transphobia.”
- Joe Rogan — smeared and nearly canceled over COVID discussions.
- Tucker Carlson — taken off Fox News after advertiser pressure campaigns.
- Parler — wiped off the internet by Apple, Google, and Amazon.
- J.K. Rowling — blacklisted for defending women’s rights.
- Mike Lindell — banned from Twitter and retailers for supporting Trump.
- The Gateway Pundit was banned on Google AdSense, Amazon Ads, and PayPal for reporting on election fraud and COVID.
- And the list goes on.
Former congressional candidate Jack Lombardi also slammed Obama, reminding him that it was under his own presidency that the government waged direct war on the free press:
- October 2009: The White House tried to exclude Fox News from a pooled interview — other networks refused to participate until Fox was included.
- May 2013: DOJ secretly seized two months of AP reporters’ phone records, an intrusion AP called “massive and unprecedented.”
- May 2013: DOJ labeled Fox’s James Rosen a “co-conspirator” in a leak probe to obtain his emails and phone records.
- Feb–Mar 2014: The FCC floated a “Critical Information Needs” newsroom study, later scrapped after a First Amendment backlash.
With respect, FMR President Obama—this happened on your watch, too:
Oct 2009: The White House tried to exclude Fox News from a pooled interview; other networks refused to participate until Fox was included.
May 2013: DOJ secretly seized two months of AP reporters’ phone…
— Jack Lombardi II (@JackLombardi) September 18, 2025
