Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan lashe sake zaben ta hanyar kayar da abokin hamayyarsa na Republican Mitt Romney, Obama ya rantsar da shi a karo na biyu
a shekara ta 2013. A lokacin wannan wa'adin, ya inganta shigar da LGBT Amurkawa. Gwamnatinsa ta gabatar da takardun da suka bukaci Kotun Koli ta soke haramcin auren jinsi daya a matsayin wanda ba bisa ka'ida ba ("United States v. Windsor" da "Obergefell v. Hodges"); An halatta auren jinsi daya a duk fadin kasar a shekarar 2015 bayan da Kotun ta yanke hukunci a "Obergefell". Ya ba da shawarar kula da bindiga don mayar da martani ga harbi a makarantar firamare ta Sandy Hook, yana nuna goyon baya ga haramcin bindigogi, kuma ya ba da umarnin zartarwa mai zurfi game da dumamar yanayi da shige da fice. A cikin manufofin waje, ya ba da umarnin shiga tsakani na soja a Iraki da Siriya don mayar da martani ga nasarorin da ISIL ta samu bayan janyewar 2011 daga Iraki, ya inganta tattaunawar da ta haifar da Yarjejeniyar Paris ta 2015 kan canjin yanayi na duniya, ya lura kuma a karshe ya nemi afuwa game da mummunan harin asibitin Kunduz, ya ci gaba da aiwatar da kawo karshen ayyukan yaƙi na Amurka a Afghanistan a 2016, ya fara takunkumi ga Rasha bayan mamayewa a Ukraine da kuma sake bayan tsoma baki a zaben Amurka na 2016, ya kulla yarjejeniyar hadin gwiwar hadin gwiwar hadin gwiwa tare da Iran, kuma ya daidaita dangantakar Amurka da Cuba. Obama ya zabi alƙalai uku zuwa Kotun Koli: An tabbatar da Sonia Sotomayor da Elena Kagan a matsayin alƙalai, yayin da Merrick Garland ya fuskanci matsala daga majalisar dattijai na Republican da Mitch McConnell ke jagoranta, wanda bai taba sauraron sauraro ko jefa kuri'a ba. Obama ya bar ofis a watan Janairun 2017 kuma ya ci gaba da zama a Washington, DC.