Make America Joyful Again 😃

Mar 20, 2026

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing about, seeing, and (most of all) writing about the current occupant of the Oval Office.

So, I’m going to exercise my own free will and — if you don’t mind — start sharing more stories from a time when America was actually great…

Remember Obama’s 2008 campaign?

Kids, flags, smiles, optimism galore!

“Our campaign was fun. Look, it wasn't always fun for me, but we built a community,” President Obama reminisced in a rare interview given this month. “We gave people a sense that if you are part of this, you're doing something meaningful, and it wasn't just talk.”

“Young people ran our campaigns. We empowered them. We put them in charge. They were out there figuring stuff out. I'm not the person who was figuring out our media strategy. I was not the person who was out there knocking on doors and talking to voters and creating events. It was 20- and 30-year-olds.”

“At some point, you age out.” 👴

Though President Obama says he considers himself “a healthy 64” — he STILL thinks he’d be “too old” to be president today.

“Look, I'm 64 now. I feel great, but the truth is, half of the references that my daughters make about social media, TikTok and such, I don't know who they’re talking about,” Obama explained.

“There is an element of, at some point, you age out, you're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through.”

“And so, I'm not making a hard and fast rule here, but I do think that Democrats do well when we have candidates who are plugged into the moment, to the zeitgeist, to the times and the particular struggles that folks are thinking about as they look towards the future, rather than look backward toward the past.“

Don’t say the r-word.

Obama may no longer have access to the nuclear codes, but don’t call him “retired.”

2026 is shaping up to be the 44th president’s busiest year since leaving office!

After five years of construction, the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center will officially open in Chicago this June.

The Center has confirmed that presidents Clinton, Bush, and Biden all received invites to attend the dedication — and Trump did not.

But enough about HIM… 🤪

When President Obama occupied America’s highest office, he read 10 letters from “regular” Americans every night.

The letters — hand-picked from the thousands of emails and handwritten notes that the White House receives every day — represented the stories and concerns of people across the country.

President Obama read a new batch every day, and often visited letter writers in their hometowns and spoken about how their messages inspired his policies.

Because GREAT leaders care, listen, learn, and act 🇺🇸