Former Obama aide claims former president was 'not a progressive' using a '2025 lens'

Actor and former White House aide Kal Penn claimed that "by a 2025 lens," former President Barack Obama was "not a progressive."

Penn, who worked for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, defended his former boss on the "Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know" podcast Wednesday where he celebrated Obama not being considered a progressive as a sign of "progress" working.

"You can't look back at 2009 with a 2025 lens and say this wasn't progressive enough," Penn said. "And I will tell you why...