Barack Obama’s Rallying Cry Goes From ‘Yes, We Can’ to ‘C’mon Man’

The phrase is seen as summing up Barack Obama’s frustration with Donald Trump

The phrase is being seen as summing up Obama’s frustration with Trump. (Photo: AP)

Is "C'mon, man!" President Barack Obama's new "Yes, We Can?"

The President is deploying the phrase "C'mon, man!" to great – and sometimes humorous – effect in the midst of an aggressive burst of campaigning to help elect Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

Those three little words are helping Obama convey what the White House says is his frustration with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers in Congress.

And just as “Yes, We Can” became a rallying cry during Obama’s presidential campaigns, so has “C’mon, man!” during this campaign – Obama’s last one.

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In Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Friday, Obama criticised Trump backers who the President said make excuses or justify things the New York businessman has said that would be "completely disqualifying" for another candidate.

We hear people justifying it and making excuses about it and saying, ‘Well, you know, he didn’t really mean it,’ or ‘it’s locker-room talk,’ or ‘Well, maybe he did mean it but as long as he supports tax cuts for the rich’ or ‘As long as he supports doing the things we want to do, it’s OK.

Barack Obama 

People are noticing the get-out-the-vote rallies which Obama has been headlining in key states for Clinton.

Obama interacts with kids at a campaign rally for Hilary Clinton. (Photo: AP)

C’mon, man! We can’t be thinking somehow that just because he agrees with you on some policy issue or just because you’re frustrated with the government that it’s OK to display the kind of behaviour he displays.

Barack Obama 

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Urbandictionary.com says "c'mon, man" is what a person would say to someone who says or does something stupid.

A day earlier in Miami, Obama criticised Trump for being so thin-skinned that he can't take the ribbing of a Saturday Night Live skit.

This is a guy who, like, tweets they should cancel <i>Saturday Night Live</i> — ‘I don’t like how Alec Baldwin is imitating me.’ Really? I mean, that’s the thing that bothers you, and you want to be president of the United States? C’mon, man! C’mon!

Barack Obama

Obama during a campaign rally for Hilary Clinton at Charlotte, USA. (Photo: AP)

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Asked whether “C’mon, man” is Obama’s new, “Yes, We Can,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said: “I think it’s trending.”

The phrase is also the name of a regular feature on ESPN, one of Obama’s favourite TV networks. Schultz said it “sums up the frustration that not only the President has, but that a lot of voters have”.

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