One of the few things Obama did to actually do a “Take that!” to the Republicans was responding to their claims that

“Yeah, maybe we’d vote on a Supreme Court nominee from Obama… If it was someone like Merrick Garland.”

And Obama was like “Bet”, and suggested Merrick Garland solely to prove that McConnell would say no.

He also jokingly included a man named “Ben Ghazi” in his list of Supreme Court picks.

Now, the correct play was “Okay, if you won’t vote on my Supreme Court picks, then I’m just going to assume that there’s no opposition and throw my guy in.”, not this, but… close answer I guess.

I really thought Garland was gonna kick some ass since it was Trump’s fault that he didn’t get to be a Supreme Court Justice, but no I see why the Republicans had the “Man he’d never go for it, but what if Obama picked Garland?” reaction as he clearly gives more of a shit about them than anything else.

Merrick from Yu-Gi-Oh would have served this country better.