While the current president spent his weekend badmouthing the FBI on Twitter, his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, was in Paris speaking about the great need for more women in elected office.

As the AFP reported (via Huffington Post), Obama made an appearance at this weekend’s Les Napoleons summit—a communications event that gathers leaders in business, media, and academia—and made very clear that he hopes more women take on leadership roles “because men seem to be having some problems these days.”

Without naming anyone in particular, the former president was clearly alluding to the staggering number of powerful men—and not just in politics, across entertainment, news media, and the art and culinary worlds as well—who have been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct since The New York Times first broke their bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé.

“Not to generalize but women seem to have a better capacity than men do, partly because of their socialization,” Obama continued.

And really, it should come as no surprise that Obama thinks the future is female. After all, he’s the same president who proudly wrote about his commitment to feminism in a Glamour essay last year.

As the panel continued, Obama made sure to get in another thinly-veiled critique of a man in power—Donald Trump.

Without naming him directly, Obama chided the “temporary absence of American leadership” when it comes to climate change and the current administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Though the U.S. may be the only country that opposes the accord, Obama assured the audience that plenty of measures are being taken by state and local governments, as well as corporations, to combat the issue.

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