{"id":208671,"date":"2025-08-02T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/208671\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:41:12","slug":"college-basketball-coach-blames-barack-obama-for-dividing-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/208671\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Coach Blames Barack Obama For ‘Dividing’ United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

College Basketball Coach Blames Barack Obama For ‘Dividing’ United States<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the second time this week, Barack Obama has been called out by Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl.<\/p>\n

Pearl’s feud with Obama started earlier this week when the former president of the United States shared\u00a0a New York Times article about the children in Gaza. Obama’s social media post included this message: “While a lasting resolution to the crisis in Gaza must involve a return of all hostages and a cessation of Israel\u2019s military operations, these articles underscore the immediate need for action to be taken to prevent the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation.”<\/p>\n

Shortly after Obama shared this message with the public, he received a harsh reply from Pearl.<\/p>\n

“You gave billions to Iran and Hamas creating this mess and not one word from you calling for THEM to release the hostages, surrender and end the War,” Pearl wrote on X.<\/a> “Tell Hamas to 1) Quit stealing and reselling aid 2) Stop attacking GHF workers who are feeding Gazans. 3) Leave and end suffering.”<\/p>\n

Pearl wasn’t done criticizing Obama. He had an awful lot to say about\u00a0the 44th U.S. president during an appearance on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 17: Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a Democracy Forum event held by the Obama Foundation at the Javits Center on November 17, 2022 in New York City. The all day event featured speakers from a variety of backgrounds conversing on the state of global democracy and opportunities for the next generation of global leaders. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)Spencer Platt&sol;Getty Images<\/p>\n

The longtime college basketball coach suggested that Obama is responsible for America being so divided right now.<\/p>\n

“I\u00a0get so frustrated when I hear what a terrible country we are or how racist we are, how this is not the land of opportunity for everybody,” Pearl said, via Fox News Digital<\/a>. “Look, we’ve got a lot to work on, and there is racism that absolutely does exist, and it’s wrong. But it’s a lot better for my players than it was for their fathers, and their fathers’ fathers. I\u00a0want my guys to recognize that there are going to be obstacles, but not roadblocks. That’s what Barack Obama did.<\/p>\n

“However, as our president, I disagreed with so many of his policies. I thought that rather than uniting us as a country … he divided us. Everything was black and white. Everything was [about] the obstacles that were against my players from being successful. I’m trying to teach my guys \u2018I don\u2019t want you to work at Subway – I want you to own five of them.’ I think in many ways, Barack Obama told a different story.”<\/p>\n

Obama hasn’t responded to these remarks from Pearl. We’re not even sure if he’s aware of what’s being said.<\/p>\n

Related: President Trump Names 6 NFL Stars To Sports, Fitness Council<\/a><\/p>\n

College Basketball Coach Blames Barack Obama For ‘Dividing’ United States<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Aug 1, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Aug 1, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College Basketball Coach Blames Barack Obama For ‘Dividing’ United States originally appeared on The Spun. For the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[31046,17229,7,217,231,772,1544,36829,36830],"class_list":{"0":"post-208671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-auburn-basketball-coach","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-obama-foundation","16":"tag-president-of-the-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114958282488938669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}