Like me, this must have thrown Trump’s audience for a loop:

Former President Donald Trump expressed admiration for Barack Obama at an event on Saturday night, after years of criticizing and insulting him.

Trump made the comments to Bill O’Reilly on the first night of their four-date History Tour in Sunrise, Florida.

“I liked him,” Trump said about former President Obama, according to The Sun Sentinel, despite the crowd booing Obama’s name.

Trump added that he thought the Democrat was “smart and sharp,” the paper said. 

So that’s pretty unbelievable. But Trump continued, and gets the prize for the most fucking ironic statement of the year:

Despite being complimentary about his predecessor, he also criticized his methods and blamed him for causing “tremendous division” and hatred in the country, according to the newspaper.

It’s simply shocking how self-unaware this person is. Either that or he’s just watering his morons.