Barack Obama is barely any better than Donald Trump

The constant praise surrounding Barack Obama due to being the first black president, and being "better" than Bush and Trump has led to a whitewashing of recent history.

In his eight years as POTUS, Barack Obama deported more than 2.5 million immigrants, leaving Donald Trump behind in numbers comparatively.

Obama presided over the continuation of the Bush doctrine on foreign policy, creating an extrajudicial "kill list" targeting Americans. https://www.socialist.net/donald-trump-and-the-hypocrisy-of-the-liberals.htm

On the third day of his presidency, Obama ordered a drone strike in Waziristan. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/drone-strike-victim-barack-obama

In the duration of his presidency, he ordered 371 drone strikes in Pakistan alone, killing between 256 and 633 civilians, with up to 78 of them being children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/drone-strike-victim-barack-obama

Citibank did a private vetting of his cabinet before he was even inaugurated.

He bailed out Wall Street but not those whose homes were foreclosed. https://www.salon.com/2009/03/20/reich_3/

Barack Obama used the "State Secrets Privilege" to spy on Muslim communities and unnecessarily profile individuals. https://www.colorlines.com/articles/obamas-unprecedented-use-state-secrets-defend-religious-profiling

He maintained and upheld Bush's rendition policy. https://www.salon.com/2009/02/09/state_secrets/

He tried to play Thanos in regards to the war in Afganistan. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120991044

He didn't pass single-payer healthcare, even with the following congressional makeup.

Obama defended and legitimized the coup in Honduras. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence

Lobbied to lower Haitian worker's pay to 30 cents per hour. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/

He started the drone surveillance and strikes in Pakistan. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?smid=tw-share

Admitted to the coup in Ukraine (video). http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/02/obama-admits-us-role-in-ukraine-overthrow/

Extended Bush's tax cuts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html

Claimed that police brutality was "people acting stupidly" (in regards to the police). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5902222/Cambridge-police-demand-apology-from-Barack-Obama-over-stupid-comments.html

Granted immunity to torturers under the Bush Administration. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer

He ended Habeus Corpus. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-americans-this-law-makes-it-possible-to-arrest_b_57c9b648e4b06c750dd9cd6f

His press secretary said that left-wing critics of Obama needed "to be drug tested." https://amp.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/aug/10/robert-gibbs-crazy-liberal-critics-obama?__twitter_impression=true

Having the NSA spy on innocent Americans. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

Attacking whistleblowers, who are protected. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning

His Attorney General said that banks "are too big to prosecute." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-holder-banks-too-big_n_2821741

Gun smuggling. https://www.latimes.com/nation/atf-fast-furious-sg-storygallery.html?page=2

Signed an Executive Order banning Syrian and Iranian immigrants to the US. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer

Militarizing the police. https://www.mintpressnews.com/white-house-reauthorize-military-equipment-police/218714/

He deported children to "send a message" to their parents. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715

Letting Hillary Clinton transform Libya from a prosperous nation to an ISIS hellhole. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=F4AB919802C9539BCBFA63C9DF7C7DD6&gwt=pay

Ordered drone strikes in Somalia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/

He was the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-msf/obama-apologizes-for-kunduz-attack-msf-demands-independent-probe-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007

Sent 100 troops to build a drone site in Niger. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283346/Obama-builds-new-drone-base-West-Africa-combat-spread-Al-Qaeda.html

Built yet another drone base, this time in Cameroon. https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-01/can-us-new-drone-base-cameroon-help-fight-boko-haram

A drone base in Seychelles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/drone-crashes-in-seychelles/2011/12/13/gIQAQ3PsrO_blog.html

Another one in Chad. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/you-might-not-know-where-chad-us-military-has-big-plans-it/

One in Djibouti. https://t.co/xzPbERJywP?amp=1

Gave $38,000,000,000 to Israel, for military aid. https://fortune.com/2016/09/13/us-israel-military-aid/

Failed to reinstate Glass Steagall. https://thehill.com/policy/finance/248336-white-house-distances-itself-from-glass-steagall-push

Angered our most stalwart ally in the Middle East. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/us/politics/arab-spring-proves-a-harsh-test-for-obamas-diplomatic-skill.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

Had a 10% success rate with drone strikes, 90% of those killed were civilians. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/15/90-of-people-killed-by-us-drone-strikes-in-afghani/

Claimed there weren't enough senate voters for Card-Check to go through, while having 59 democrats in the Senate.

Manipulating the rules so he didn't have to pass single-payer healthcare. https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/

Murdered a teenager, and his press secretary didn't care at all.

More than doubled Bush's Final Arms-Export. https://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/11/obamas-final-arms-export-tally-more-doubles-bushs/133014/

Black Americans were disproportionately affected by Obamacare. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/227312-racial-gap-shrinking-under-obamacare-but-black-americans-remain-stuck

Obama speaking on Ferguson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2BBAfWucaE

Paying no mind to the Haliburton loophole. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking

Didn't hold the Red Cross accountable after they lied about the amount of support they provided to Haitians post-earthquake. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

Cut food stamps while bailing out banks. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Excused slavery in Malaysia. https://theintercept.com/2015/07/27/blocked-trade-pact-failure-trafficking-malaysia-suddenly-gets-passing-grade/

Didn't care about child soldiers in Sudan, rather increasing arms sales to the country. https://theintercept.com/2016/06/09/hillary-clintons-state-department-gave-south-sudans-military-a-pass-for-its-child-soldiers/

Supported the war in Yemen with arms sales to Saudi Arabia. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/11/obama-administrations-1-billion-arms-deal-aids-sau/

Attacking peaceful protesters to incite violence, lead to arrests, and disable their political power. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

Furthering the above point, he ordered police to "crack down" on Occupy Wall Street protesters. https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/did-the-white-house-direct-the-police-crackdown-on-occupy/

HAMP mortgage relief program was designed to "foam the runway" for the banks, not help underwater home owners. https://billmoyers.com/2015/02/14/needless-default/

Assisted in the bombing of a Yemen funeral. https://www.alternet.org/2016/10/did-us-assist-sanaa-bombing/

Cut NASA funding. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/15/obama-nasa-space-neil-armstrong

Bombing Syria until he ran out of bombs. https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/air-force-20000-bombs-missiles-isis/index.html

Supporting right-wing movements in Ukraine. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/statement-president-ukraine-freedom-support-act

Expanded the Monsanto Doctrine, by signing the DARK Act into law. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-signs-dark-act-to-invalidate-vermonts-landmark_b_57a644c7e4b0ccb023727b2d

Bombed a wedding. https://www.newsweek.com/wedding-became-funeral-us-still-silent-one-year-deadly-yemen-drone-strike-291403

Infiltrated Standing Rock activists, leading to the arrest of at least one woman. https://theintercept.com/2017/12/11/standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-fbi-informant-red-fawn-fallis/

Allowed offshore drilling. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0331/Obama-seeks-compromise-in-offshore-drilling-plan

Ignored child rape. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html

Gave a white, Italian drone victim $1.2 million, while barely apologizing to a victim in Yemen and giving them $100,000 for two family members who were murdered.

Ignored the rampant growth of white supremacy. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/expert-obama-ignored-surge-rightwing-extremism-inspired-charleston-killer

Used racist court ruling to deny thousands of Samoans their citizenship. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/obama-administration-american-samoa-deny-citizenship/

Failed to break up "big agra" monopolies. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/obama-administration-big-food-policy.html

Let the DREAM act die.

Threatened Britain to keep evidence of US torture under wraps. https://www.salon.com/2009/05/12/obama_101/

Kept toddlers behind bars. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-is-the-obama-administration-keeping-toddlers-behind-bars/

Placed more than a dozen children into the hands of traffickers. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/us-placed-immigrant-children-with-traffickers-report-says.html

Lowered childcare standards in order to keep detention centers active. https://shadowproof.com/2016/02/12/texas-lowers-childcare-standards-keep-private-family-detention-centers-open/

Voted against anti-Nazi resolutions at the UN. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/

Spied on German government. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/07/03/politics/germany-media-spying-obama-administration/index.html

Colluded with Saudi Arabia in order to lower oil prices and hurt the socialist economy of Venezuela. https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-led-economic-war-not-socialism-tearing-venezuela-apart/218335/

Approved fracking during an environmental crisis.

Refused to ban landmines.

Gassed people's dogs and forcibly relocated Chagos Islanders, and later refusing their reentry. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/16/chagos-islanders-denied-right-to-return-home

Appointed Republicans to cabinet roles. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3448362/Barack-Obama-to-appoint-Republicans-to-key-cabinet-roles.html

Declared Venezuela a "national security threat." https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2015/03/obama-declares-venezuela-national-security-threat-150309164808710.html?__twitter_impression=true

Nominated a homophobic judge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O59fdz-qQKw

Called Black Americans "disproportionately violent." https://twitter.com/i/status/1257737546358042627

There is further expansion on crimes committed by Barack Obama from the Twitter user @eshaLegal (https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/943234477156945920). Thanks to Esha for providing a large part of this list.