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Another old tweet comes back to haunt the president after he tried to defend his slow and tentative walk down a ramp at West Point.
The former US president took the mic in a town hall meeting to commend protesters, drawing a sharp contrast with his successor Donald Trump.
"If we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both," wrote the former president.
The president claimed he hadn't heard his predecessor's remarks criticizing U.S. leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
"A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge," said the former president in an address to college graduates.
"OMG, how to decipher this?" one person responded to the former president's single word post.
Pete Souza hinted at what was happening at the precise moment he took “The Situation Room Photograph".
The former president highlighted the lack of a "coherent national plan" in a thinly-veiled dig at Trump.
Obama waited until Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic primary before endorsing his former vice president in the 2020 race.
The former vice-president's three previous campaigns ended disastrously. But he's the most well-known politician in the race to become the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.