{"id":37990,"date":"2025-04-05T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/barack-obama-calls-on-americans-to-defend-democratic-values-in-face-of-trump-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:42:42","slug":"barack-obama-calls-on-americans-to-defend-democratic-values-in-face-of-trump-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/barack-obama-calls-on-americans-to-defend-democratic-values-in-face-of-trump-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama calls on Americans to defend democratic values in face of Trump agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It is up to all of us to fix this,\u2019 former president said in speech at Hamilton College in New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> has called on US citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda \u2013 and warned Americans to prepare to \u201cpossibly sacrifice\u201d in support of democratic values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive or say you are for social justice or say you\u2019re for free speech and not have to pay a price for it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/barackobama.medium.com\/conversation-at-hamilton-college-0c44228ac0bd\">Obama said during a speech<\/a> at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/05\/barack-obama-trump-agenda\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It is up to all of us to fix this,\u2019 former president said in speech at Hamilton College in New York Barack Obama has called on US citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda \u2013 and warned Americans to prepare to \u201cpossibly sacrifice\u201d in support of democratic values. \u201cIt has been &#8230; <a title=\"Barack Obama calls on Americans to defend democratic values in face of Trump agenda\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/barack-obama-calls-on-americans-to-defend-democratic-values-in-face-of-trump-agenda\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Barack Obama calls on Americans to defend democratic values in face of Trump agenda\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}