Former President Barack Obama took aim at cancel culture and the messaging of the Democratic Party in a recent interview, suggesting that sometimes Democrats can be "buzzkills."

"My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun," Obama told the "Pod Save America" podcast on Friday. "Hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are. Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes."

Obama went on to say that Democratic politicians "get into trouble" by getting too bogged down in policy. 

"I think we do get into trouble. Look, I used to get into trouble whenever, as you guys know well, whenever I got a little too professorial and, you know, started … when I was behind the podium as opposed to when I was in a crowd, there were times where I’d get, you know, sound like I was giving a bunch of policy gobbledygook," Obama explained.