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May 20, 2021, 11:31 am*
In a new book detailing how Democrats worked to bring down Donald Trump, The Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere alleged that former President Barack Obama had some choice words on his successor behind the scenes.
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The book, titled Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, claims that Obama referred to him as “that f—ing lunatic” on one occasion, and on another, after learning Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin in private during the investigation into Russian election interference, it was “that correct motherf—er.”
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“I didn’t think we’d have a racist, sexist pig,” he said when he was being more polite on the subject.
Under normal circumstances, former presidents traditionally avoid criticizing their successors, even in more private situations. However, under normal circumstances, former presidents are not replaced by Donald Trump. Obama ditched this tradition once his former vice president launched his campaign for 2020, but in public tended to attack Trump’s policies and avoided using swear words.
It turns out that even before then, in private and sometimes towards big donors who hated Trump, he was a little more honest about his real feelings.
“‘He’s a madman,’ Dovere reports Obama telling ‘big donors looking to squeeze a reaction out of him in exchange for the big checks they were writing to his foundation,’” wrote The Guardian editor Martin Pengelly.
Other fun details from Dovere’s book include the fact that Obama initially preferred Trump as president over Senator Ted Cruz, thinking as many did at the time that Cruz would be a more effective and politically savvy president that would be harder for Democrats to combat. By now, of course, he’s changed his mind on that.
He also reportedly had doubts about Biden running for president, worrying about his age and that he might be “past his best” as a politician.
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Obama can certainly be forgiven for not being a fan of Donald Trump, seeing as the man helped to popularize the racist “birther” campaign against the former president claiming that he was born outside of the U.S., likely in Kenya, because that’s where all Black people are born, right? Trump’s attacks on Obama continued after he won in 2016, with wild claims that Obama himself was wiretapping the Trump Tower prior to the election.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” Trump tweeted in 2017. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
As for other people who consider Trump to be a “racist, sexist pig,” they’re now enjoying the distant memories of the Obama years.
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*First Published: May 20, 2021, 11:30 am
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