Former President Barack Obama stated that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell crime in Democrat-run cities is “inherently corrupting,” arguing that he would have received a different reaction from conservative media if he had sent the military into Texas during his tenure.

Obama spoke with left-wing comedian Mark Maron for the final episode of his long-running podcast, published Monday, in which he shared several of his grievances about how Trump has been leading the country.

“When you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting. And so when you now start seeing the politicization of the military deliberately —” he said, before Haron chimed in with, “They just landed in Chicago.”

“Yeah,” the former

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