Former President Obama closed the night, declaring himself “the only person stupid enough to speak right after Michelle Obama.” After heavily praising his former vice president, Joe Biden, Obama noted how “the torch has been passed” to Kamala Harris and emphasized how important it was for her to defeat Donald Trump. Obama painted Trump as “a 78-year-old billionaire who hasn’t stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago” and, in a verbal and visual double-entendre, roasted Trump for his “childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes.”

On the DNC stage Barack #Obama laid into his successor Donald #Trump and what he described were his “weird gripes”.

“There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, the weird obsession with crowd size…” pic.twitter.com/snW78wsIxB

— Rajini Vaidyanathan (@BBCRajiniV) August 21, 2024

When the crowd booed Trump as Obama condemned the former president for killing a bipartisan border bill to help his campaign, Obama brought back an old admonition to the audience: “Do not boo. Vote.”

Obama pulls out a classic… “don’t boo, vote!” pic.twitter.com/IOSkspWAbe

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) August 21, 2024

Obama doubled down and declared, “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.” Instead, he declared, we are “ready for a better story; we are ready for a President Kamala Harris.”

.@BarackObama: “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before and we all know that the sequel is usually worse. America is ready for a new chapter. America is ready for a better story. We are ready for a President Kamala Harris.” pic.twitter.com/Og7ZyVe5Or

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 21, 2024

After contrasting what a Biden-Walz administration and another Trump presidency would look like, Obama concluded his speech by telling the audience, “Let’s get to work.”

Obama closes night 2 of the DNC: “Let’s get to work!” pic.twitter.com/aIoGODlueU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2024

The Obamas fired up the Democratic crowd like few have done. With everything at stake with this election, we expect to see the former first couple on the campaign trail in the coming months.