So Obama is trying to shift blame to the citizens, voters, and politicians who want to reduce the conflicts caused by his migration experiment.

Under Trump, “We’re okay with just breaking the rules, just breaking the system in certain ways,” he said, adding:

Let’s take something like the National Guard. In Washington, D.C. right now, you have National Guard folks deployed who are setting up checkpoints. And they’re working with ICE, and you have ICE agents who are checking people’s IDs and stopping traffic. That’s not something that we’ve seen before in a non-emergency situation.

In Los Angeles, these ICE agents, in terms of who are we going to stop, recently were engaging in practices that involved stopping people who are Latino and deciding, well, that justifies you being stopped and checked, in some cases, by somebody who’s masked and does not feel obliged to identify themselves.

You then have a Supreme Court that said that was okay, although they didn’t write a written opinion, used something called the shadow docket to say, well, for now, we think that’s okay.

Obama has also blamed the economy and technology.

The conflicts are amplified by “changes in the economy, changes in demographics, and then changes in technology and media, and this brings us to the question of social media,” Obama said, adding:

What happened was, is that how we got information changed, and it was turbocharged by social media. And suddenly, you have a big chunk of the country, who the reality they’re receiving every day is entirely different than the reality I’m receiving.

And so, that combination of forces, I think, created huge political tensions. And it also got the government stuck, because of the filibuster, because of gerrymandering. It made it very difficult to move forward and get stuff done in a divided country in which each side has completely different views of what’s true and what’s false.

Obama’s “experiment” admission echoes his pro-diversity pitch during the 2024 Democratic convention.

“No nation, no society has ever tried to build a democracy as big and as diverse as ours before, one that includes people that, over decades, have come from every corner of the globe,” he said in August 2024.

“The rest of the world is watching to see if we can actually pull this off,” Obama said, hinting at the threat posed by Trump’s rival vision — “Make America Great Again.”

In November 2024, the nation’s voters rejected Obama and decided that their government should stop trying to “pull this off.”