Barack Obama is scrapping his summer playlist this year.

The former president has been highlighting his music favorites since he was in office in 2015, and he’s continued posting the musicians who earned a spot on the coveted list on social media every year. But this year, “with everything going on,” he wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday, he won’t be continuing the annual tradition.

“I didn’t have time to put a summer playlist together this year, but send me songs that I should listen to for my year-end playlist,” he explained in the post. He did, however, still post his 2025 Summer Reads.

Obama has been pulled into Trump’s chaotic headlines in recent months, intermittently interrupting the quiet post-presidency life he seemed to have been seeking. He broke his silence to call out th

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