President Obama Drops The Mic On CBS 60 Minutes and GOP Hack Steve Kroft

President Obama doesn’t have another election cycle to face, and it is clear that he is a man with zero f*cks left to give. So when Steve Kroft turned hostile during last nights 60 Minutes interview with the President, he got shut down with the kind of class that guys like Trump just cannot muster.

So for a touch of context, Kroft attempted to slam Obama over Syria. Obama’s notable reluctance to entangle the U.S. in yet another open-ended military assault in the Middle East is, according to Kroft, evidence of a lack of leadership. The interviewer even pilloried a failed attempt to train and equip moderate anti-Assad groups to fight the battle themselves. As Obama attempted to answer the question, this happened:

Steve Kroft: It’s an embarrassment.

President Barack Obama: Look, there’s no doubt that it did not work. And, one of the challenges that I’ve had throughout this heartbreaking situation inside of Syria is, is that– you’ll have people insist that, you know, all you have to do is send in a few– you know, truckloads full of arms and people are ready to fight. And then, when you start a train-and-equip program and it doesn’t work, then people say, “Well, why didn’t it work?” Or, “If it had just started three months earlier it would’ve worked.”

 Steve Kroft: But you said yourself you never believed in this.

President Barack Obama: Well– but Steve, what I have also said is, is that surprisingly enough it turns out that in a situation that is as volatile and with as many players as there are inside of Syria, there aren’t any silver bullets. And this is precisely why I’ve been very clear that America’s priorities has to be number one, keeping the American people safe. Number two, we are prepared to work both diplomatically and where we can to support moderate opposition that can help convince the Russians and Iranians to put pressure on Assad for a transition. But that what we are not going to do is to try to reinsert ourselves in a military campaign inside of Syria. Let’s take the situation in Afghanistan, which I suspect you’ll ask about. But I wanted to use this as an example.

Steve Kroft: All right. I feel like I’m being filibustered, Mr. President.

President Barack Obama: No, no, no, no, no. Steve, I think if you want to roll back the tape, you’ve been giving me long questions and statements, and now I’m responding to ’em. So let’s– so– if you ask me big, open-ended questions, expect big, open-ended answers.

In his final statement, President Obama delivers the knock out punch that the mainstream media has been bobbing and weaving for far too long. He doesn’t engage in Trump-style persecution complex, he elevates the matter to the place it belongs.