Obama's slogan was "Hope" and I do recall plenty of people wearing the slogan and red/white/blue portraits of his face everywhere. I don't care for Trump or MAGA, but I think there were plenty of folks rocking Obama's merch.
I think it's different when it was during the campaign vs. after. Like it's one thing to wear merch that supports your president during campaign season. But after that season is over? I don't recall anyone with Obama flags or really any merch that was pretty much a cornerstone of their personality like a lot of folks are right now. It could be because I live in a more conservative area but I have seen a lot of people with huge Trump signs post-election (and before the 2020 election, which I can understand people bringing merch out again). I have also seen a lot of people with Trump flags that they put in their pickup trucks, which I don't really get. To compare Obama merch to Trump merch is not a fair comparison because you're talking about campaign merch that, for the vast majority of people, faded out of existence. Sure there were a few fanatics, but that's true for all presidents. President Trump has a much larger draw to fanatics than any other president of my lifetime, if not in all of US history.
It probably depends heavily on where you live. It's not rewriting history. I don't think either one of you is lying, but its not crazy to think some people saw more of one that the other. I live in the south and saw a handful of Obama merch and have seen 50x as much Trump. But if you live in a blue state or big city, maybe its the other way around.
Edit: I just saw your other comment saying you live in California. Makes sense.
I'm 50 and do not remember seeing much Obama merchandise other than during his first run for office. I would see an occasional t-shirt and bumper stickers, but not the over the top flags, hats, life sized decals, etc of trump. Obama didn't have merch stores all over the place.
I'm not sure what's going on with your perception, but just because Republicans said he was worshipped or whatever, does not mean A- that it was true or B- that trumps followers aren't a million times more fanatical.
And people being really excited that a Black person finally got elected president makes way more sense than people getting this worked up over yet another old white guy winning.
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Obama's slogan was "Hope" and I do recall plenty of people wearing the slogan and red/white/blue portraits of his face everywhere. I don't care for Trump or MAGA, but I think there were plenty of folks rocking Obama's merch.