Obama Cuts a Powerful Ad — Trump Calls Into a Radio Show and Sounds TERRIFIED

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Donald Trump calls into this right-wing radio show, the John Frederick show, and Donald Trump's like, "They're going to impeach me if if the yes vote wins in Virginia. I'm Obama cut a campaign ad for Virginia's redistricting referendum.

[00:00:15]Calm specific seconds done. And Trump called a right-wing radio show to tell his supporters he would be impeached if the vote passed, that it was the most unfair thing anyone had ever seen, that nobody had ever done anything like this.

[00:00:26]>> Donald Trump is losing it as former President Barack Obama is ready to end Donald Trump's term. And so Donald Trump is terrified because former President Obama has been leading the vote yes campaign in order to do the temporary redistricting in Virginia in response to Trump gerrymandering these MAGA Republican states across the country.

[00:00:52]And the specific detail he left out of that radio call is that the redistricting strategy he was describing as unprecedented was pioneered in Texas under Republican leadership, that he never once called it unfair when his party was drawing the maps, and that the only thing unprecedented about what Virginia Democrats were doing was that they had learned it from him. Listen to how terrified Donald Trump is right now as former President Obama's one of the leaders of the vote yes campaign, which is today the vote's today, Virginia.

[00:01:19]Here, play this clip of Trump calling in the John Frederick's radio show. Play this clip.

[00:01:24]>> I'll tell you, we have Mike Johnson's done a great job. They were But we're always fighting against this this The The one thing the Democrats do, they stick together, even on really horrible policy. I always say they have horrible policy, but they stick together. They impeached me and they had no right to impeach me. Right. And they did it like in Nobody even Obama's ad was seconds.

[00:01:45]Trump's radio call was a warning that impeachment was coming. One of them seems significantly more frightened than the other. Obama's ad does not mention Trump by name. It describes what happened, names the states where maps were redrawn mid-decade, explains the temporary nature of the amendment, and closes with a direct instruction, vote yes. Hey Virginia, early voting is underway and Virginians are turning out in record numbers to vote yes.

[00:02:11]By voting yes, you have a chance to do something important. Not just for the Commonwealth, but for our entire country.

[00:02:19]By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms. By voting yes, you can take a temporary step to level the playing field.

[00:02:32]And we're counting on you.

[00:02:34]Early voting is happening And the contrast between that calm delivery and Trump's radio call is the contrast. This channel was built to document because Obama is describing a mechanism while Trump is describing his own fear. And a man who is confident in his position does not call a radio show to explain why a state referendum terrifies him.

[00:02:52]Again, cry and complain about how terrified he is of a redistricting referendum passing in Virginia to change the constitution. Play this clip.

[00:03:04]>> What's going to happen if we lose these these elections, you know, the house and this case the house and just it's going to be a disaster. If they do this, they're guaranteed to pick up a lot of seats and it's everybody knows The Virginia map currently runs seats, six Democrats, five Republicans. And the amendment would temporarily restructure it in response to Republican gerrymandering across Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, which added seats through mid-cade redistricting that Trump's own party designed and implemented, music, and celebrated.

[00:03:36]And Trump went on radio to call the Democratic response unfair with a specific indignation of a man who invented the move and cannot believe someone ran it back at him. If you grew up in an era when political fairness meant the same rules applied to both sides when the argument they did at first settled music the debate rather than opened it, you already understood what Obama's ad was before he finished the sentence. Then Trump says the quiet part out loud. If Democrats get additional House seats, they will impeach him. And the reason that line matters is not the impeachment threat itself, but what it documents, which is that Trump is doing the math on what a Democratic House majority means for his second term. And the math is producing the word impeachment before anyone else has said it, which means the radio call is not a warning to his supporters. It is a confession that he knows what a fair map produces, and he needs the map to stay unfair to stay protected. Obama posted that got million views before Trump called the radio show. Obama posted about the Hungarian election, a pro-democracy party won. He called it testament to resilience and the rule of law. And the post reached million views, a number Trump has not approached on his best day on Truth Social. And My Illest notes this directly, million views on a post about democracy in Hungary, numbers Trump would dream about. And then Obama cut the Virginia ad, and Trump called the radio show, and between million people choosing to watch one man speak and one man calling a radio show to complain about the other is the clearest possible data point on where the attention actually lives. He moved on, and the radio call did not move with him. Subscribe