He was already adored in Berlin before he was even president. Now Barack Obama is back. An evening with the self-marketing god, right behind the 2500-euro spots, without a selfie together.
Afterwards, while waiting for the S-Bahn home, a young woman will summarize the evening to her boyfriend as follows: “Obama” is still “the coolest”. What he masters like no other is the chatty three-step process – always tell something personal first, then a little joke, and only at the end perhaps derive something political from it. “What other politician could you listen to for an hour? Olaf Scholz?”