Barack Obama

Barack Obama is a human in the Revenge of the Fallen live-action film series.

"Mr. President, with an alien invasion upon us, the American people want to know: Where is Tom Jones?"

Barack "Barry"^[1] Obama was elected President of the United States in a time of national and global peril. While his predecessor was incumbent, a crisis had exploded with N.B.E. 01's, the loss of the All Spark, and a swarm of alien combatants waging a clandestine, highly unconventional war in hotspots across the world.

When he was running for election, Obama had blown off a question about alien visitors with a joke.^[1] But as President, his fear that the Autobots' presence attracted the Decepticons led him to appoint a National Security Advisor that was a constant thorn in the side of the joint human/Autobot military force, which found itself increasingly hamstrung in direct proportion to the gravity of the Decepticon threat.

Fiction

Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)

Sharkatron3000 posted a clip on The Real Effing Deal from an interview of Obama when he was still running for president.

Sharkatron3000 took the interview as evidence that the President is completely unprepared for the prospect of alien visitors, because he treated the question as a joke.

Later, Leo Spitz cited the President's actions as a justification for his own video-blogging.The Real Effing Deal

Revenge of the Fallen movie

After coming to power, Obama retained Admiral General Morshower as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Even though NEST had successfully destroyed the Decepticon infiltrators in Shanghai, China, the new President of the United States was horrified by the destruction caused during the operation. President Obama sent Director Theodore Galloway to Diego Garcia to outline the White House's criticisms of NEST's operations and their alliance with the alien Autobots, in particular Optimus Prime's open invitation for Autobot refugees to come to Earth. They feared that reason the Decepticons being on Earth was to seek vengeance upon the Autobots and their allies, and when General Morshower attempted to defend Major Lennox and his men's judgement by stating they were above reproach, Galloway stated that as far as the President was concerned, nobody was above reproach. He directly asked Optimus Prime that if the President felt that the United States' national security was better served by having the Autobots leave Earth, would they do so peacefully? Optimus Prime agreed, but bluntly told Galloway to pass along a message to the President: What if the Autobots leave, and the humans are wrong?

Soon afterwards, Optimus Prime was killed in battle defending Sam Witwicky, and The Fallen began his invasion of Earth. Among the casualties were Paris, France, and the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt. Appalled with the loss of several thousand lives, the President gave galloway operational authority which he use to deactivatie of NEST and the immediate transportation of the Autobots back to Diego Garcia. Galloway also revealed Obama was even being forced to consider The Fallen's demands that Sam Witwicky be turned over to the Decepticons, as a "diplomatic" solution to the war. Lennox played along until he found an opportunity: While NEST and the corpse of Prime were being flown back to base, Lennox used an apparent emergency to trick Galloway into parachuting out. Lennox then took his team rogue, flying to Egypt to meet with Sam and Seymour Simmons, who found a way to resurrect Prime and defeat The Fallen. Revenge of the Fallen

Notes

• While on the campaign trail, the real-life Barack Obama met Michael Bay by chance in an airport, and the two had a mutually-complimentary conversation. Inspired by this encounter, Bay made a late-stage decision to add Obama's name and image to a brief scene in Revenge of the Fallen.^[2] It is unknown whether it occurred to Bay, or whether it was planned or not, that the movie's otherwise-unnamed President is essentially a villain (or perhaps a well-meaning bureaucrat) whose concerns almost doom Earth. Whatever the case, some conservative movie critics rejoiced over Obama's (possibly accidental) negative portrayal in the movie.^{[citation needed]}

• In an alternate timeline presented in the UK Titan comics, in which the Decepticons were victorious in the battle of Mission City, Obama did not become the next President of the United States. Instead, when the previous President was killed, fictional Vice President Theodore Allen succeeded him. Transformers Comic issue 14

• The real-life Obama was the inspiration for much of TransTech Optimus Prime's bio.

• Obama took a notably more dismissive view of the Autobots than his ally Gordon Brown.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "OBAMAMANIA!" blog post by Sharkatron3000 on TheRealEffingDeal.com
2. ↑ Michael Bay: 'Obama likes my movies' at Digital Spy, and Bay telling the story at a press conference.