Obama mocks Trump for refusing to accept his 2020 election loss in a rare public rebuke

Barack Obama made fun of Donald Trump for not accepting that he lost the presidential election.

At a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, Obama said that the first time he ran for Congress, he was "whooped" and "had a big L on my forehead."

I was also frustrated. I did not do what I did. I did not say that the election was rigged. I did not try to prevent votes from being counted. I did not encourage a mob to storm the capitol.

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He chose to learn from the loss and use it to improve his campaign the next time.

While Obama did not directly name him, it was a thinly veiled dig at Trump, who has continued to baselessly allege that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Since leaving office, the former president has mostly refrained from publicly rebuking his successor.

Most of the time, Obama criticizes Trump while campaigning for Democrats.

The president was in Georgia on Friday to campaign for the Democratic candidates for governor and senator.

The former president told the crowd not to put their head in the sand and to vote for the Georgia Democrats.

If we make our voices heard, things will improve. He said that they will heal what ails us, restore our democracy, and build a country that is more equal and free.