Bill O’Reilly Praises ‘Hardest Working Modern’ President Barack Obama: ‘Didn’t Think He Was Damaging the Country At All’

Bill O’Reilly praised former President Barack Obama as the “hardest working modern president” in an upcoming special for NewsNation.

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert sat down with O’Reilly to discuss his new nonfiction work Confronting the Presidents , which examines personal lives and impacts of U.S. presidents. One example is a deep-dive into the troubled relationship between George Washington and his mother that lasted through her death.

In a preview clip of Sunday’s Bill O’Reilly’s Confronting the Presidents: America’s Best and Worst , O’Reilly discussed Obama and had far more positive things to say about him than most might expect from the former Fox News host . O’Reilly received some backlash all the way back in 2014 for his interruptions during an interview with Obama . According to O’Reilly, he had a “good relationship” with the president.

“We were very fair to Barack Obama in Confronting the Presidents . We had a good relationship with Obama. I knew what he was doing it, and why he was doing it. And he wasn’t, in his mind, or in my mind, damaging the country. I didn’t think he was damaging the country at all. Obama is the hardest working modern President,” O’Reilly said.

The author claimed Obama is not a fan of President Joe Biden’s work ethic.

“Obama didn’t like Biden because Biden was like taking a nap every three hours,” he said.

O’Reilly said his criticism of Obama simply boils down to the massive spending done under his administration, but he argued that Obama belongs in the “good category” for past presidents.

“I didn’t agree with his mass spending tactics because I don’t think that works in the long run for the working American. Can’t raise taxes the way these guys want to raise them on the Democratic side,” he said. “But I don’t think Obama was a bad president at all. In fact, you could put him in the good category because he uplifted a portion of the population that needed to be uplifted, people of color.”

Bill O’Reilly’s Confronting the Presidents: America’s Best and Worst airs in full on NewsNation this Sunday, September 15 at 9 p.m. ET.

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