Nine days until the US election.

And former President Barack Obama says what most of the world has been thinking.

Trump babbled something back, but Obama’s sense of timing has always been impeccable.

He is now stumping for other candidates, acting as a counterweight to Trump, who is old news.

In this election news cycle, the one that counts the most, he struck first, and it is his message which now resonates. Trump responded, and that has no effect. Obama has essentially provided the scaffolding for summing up the last two years of the Trump presidency, and it was a devastating blow.

In nine days, we’ll see the outcome.