Former President Barack Obama has urged disillusioned Democrats to quit “navel-gazing” and “whining” in a call to stand firm against the Trump administration.

The 44th president offered his blunt perspective as he returned to the fundraising circuit at a private event in New Jersey on Friday, telling his party to “toughen up.”

Obama has made only a handful of public interventions since the start of President Donald Trump ’s second term.

Last month, he said the U.S. is “dangerously close” to an autocracy amid Trump’s immigration crackdown and battles with the courts.

His latest comments, first reported by CNN and confirmed by MSNBC , appear to be directed at Democratic Party officials and activists ahead of gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia in November

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