“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordNovember 8, 2021
Some of our progress stalled when my successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office. I wasn`t real happy about that.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the impact of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate progress.

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