Why did he do it?
Easy question.
Obama thinks he’s the state, like King Louis the Sixteenth.
His effort reminds me of a crude insult hurled by a woman I knew about a guy who thought he was God’s gift to women. “He thinks foreplay means showing up at the front door,” she said.
Obama thinks his mere presence is sufficient to get what he wants. God willing he won’t wreck the country by the time he’s done.
Actually, it was Louis XV who was famously quoted as saying he was synonymous with the state.
Louis XVI was the unlucky recipient of a rather unpleasant haircut.