This is going to be filed under the category of “absolutely clueless.”

While speaking in Kenya, the president actually said this:

Obama: Corruption is biggest impediment to Kenya's growth#kenya

— Culture of Truth (@Bobblespeak) July 25, 2015

Obama: International businesses reluctant to invest where corruption increases costs#kenya

— Culture of Truth (@Bobblespeak) July 25, 2015

Obama: My own hometown of Chicago was famous for corruption, Al Capone… reform requires a change of habits#kenya

— Culture of Truth (@Bobblespeak) July 25, 2015

So, to sum up…

In Kenya, Obama highlights Chicago as the example of how to get rid of corruption & make progress.

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 25, 2015

Let’s just say that people were slightly skeptical of Obama’s claims of a corruption-free Chicago.

@RichardGrenell He's kidding, right? He would have to be because no sane person would believe that.

— (((Vicki Fry))) (@VickiFry) July 25, 2015

You know, that would be the same place where four of the last seven governors have sent to prison for, um, corruption. And the last governor who went to prison, Rod Blagojevich, was convicted of trying to sell off the president’s former Senate seat for cash and favors, among other charges. Blagojevich made the news this week when five of the 18 convictions against him were tossed, but it doesn’t change the nature of his other convictions or his prison sentence unless he continues to appeal. He is still quite a guilty man.

And there is a reason “Chicago politics” is still a byword for corruption, and it doesn’t have anything to do with it all being in the past.

Either Obama is trolling, or he really is that deeply enmeshed within his own version of Chicago politics that to him, Chicago now looks as wonderful as he does. I’m voting for the second option.