During former President Barack Obama's eight years in office, Glenn Beck dedicated countless episodes of his programming to relentlessly attacking him. Following Obama's reelection in 2012, Beck even went so far as to literally ban mentions of Obama's name on his daily radio show.
In 2015, when Obama sat down for interviews with three YouTube creators, Beck was utterly disgusted, saying that it was the equivalent of Winston Churchill showing up at "burlesque shows" in the 1930s and taking questions "while I squeeze her boobies."
"It's obscene," Beck fumed. "It is truly obscene. I don't know anybody that can bring the dignity back to that office":
A decade later, Beck is obviously no longer worried about bringing "dignity" back to the Oval Office because when President Donald Trump held a remarkably tacky and tasteless cage fight on the lawn of the White House crassly timed to coincide with his own birthday, Beck had nothing but praise.
"It was the 250th birthday of the United States of America," Beck said on his radio show Monday morning. "If you can't throw a party at 250, when can you?"
"It was so well worth watching," he continued. "It was remarkable. All of the videos that they were putting in between, the way this whole thing was staged. Just the flyover. I mean, I've never seen a flyover like that. It was stunning. I will tell you, [Ronald] Reagan was an actor; Donald Trump is a showman. Donald Trump is the best showman we've ever had; the only one I can think of that might have been maybe in his league is PT Barnum. The guy knows how to throw a show."
"But the point of this is, it was a celebration," Beck proclaimed. "It was a celebration of America, it was a celebration of our past, and it was a celebration of our heroes."
Beck's remarks were as predictable as they were shameless.
After all, Beck spent the entire 2016 election cycle warning that Donald Trump was crazy, a dangerous psychopath, and the “biggest flaming [ass] that you could possibly imagine.” When other conservatives endorsed Trump, Beck was furious and wondered how they could even sleep at night. Throughout the campaign, Beck steadfastly refused to support Trump, insisting that Jesus Christ himself would tell Beck not to support him because doing so would be disloyal to God.
Then, the moment Trump became president, Beck abandoned all of his supposed "principles" and became an obsequious Trump sycophant who eagerly declared in 2020 that Trump must be reelected because the election represented a spiritual battle against "Satan himself."
