Obama’s Long, International Goodbye

President Obama’s domestic legacy stands in ruins after Donald Trump’s stunning victory in the presidential election — but now the president is on a world tour doing his best to ensure the rest of the world remembers him more fondly than the people over whom he governed.

The “majority of Americans think I’ve done a pretty good job,” Obama told reporters in Germany on Thursday during a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The “majority of Americans think I’ve done a pretty good job,” Obama told reporters.

But while Obama may currently enjoy an approval rating over 50 percent, American voters in many states rejected his handpicked successor who was running on the promise of an effective third Obama term.

Of course, his average approval rating is 48 percent, according to Gallup — which suggests that on average a majority of Americans do not think he’s done a “pretty good job.”

It is becoming increasingly clear that this final foreign jaunt of Obama’s is little more than a long goodbye to his foreign fans, a legacy lap designed to salvage whatever he can of the memory of that inspiring Candidate Obama, who promised the people of Berlin a new, better world in 2008.

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When asked by a reporter if his radical agenda may have contributed to the backlash that saw Trump win the election, Obama maintained that he didn’t go too far or rush his agenda. This is nonsense.

Within two years of his first term, Obama had scrapped the entire American health care system and replaced it with the disastrous leviathan known as the Affordable Care Act. He has attempted to naturalize millions of illegal immigrants through executive decree.

He has sent White House officials to the funerals of petty criminals so as to perpetuate the insidious myth of a systemically racist America. He allowed the Internal Revenue Service to wage a private war against conservative nonprofits and the Environmental Protection Agency to cause catastrophic damage to the nation’s coal industry.

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If Obama’s recollection of his domestic legacy differs from that of a significant number of Americans, his description of his foreign policy approach is laughable. Obama claimed on Thursday that he “[tries] not to get involved” in the affairs of other countries.

From regime change in Libya, to arming rebels in Syria, to launching drone strikes in Yemen, to telling the British people to vote against Brexit, to using U.S. intelligence services to aid in the overthrow of the legitimate, elected government of Ukraine — if Obama does try to stay out of other countries’ business, he has clearly failed.

Just as Obama couldn’t resist sugar-coating his record, it appeared that he couldn’t resist a chance to take a shot at Trump. “It’s easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans than it is to communicate complex policies,” Obama said.