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catbyte

(34,499 posts)
Sun May 17, 2020, 09:53 PM May 2020

'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obama

The president seems more interested in blaming his predecessor than tackling the coronavirus – so what’s driving Trump’s fixation?

by David Smith in Washington

Sat 16 May 2020 03.00 EDT

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But what became clear in the next three and a half years is that Obama remains something of an obsession for Trump; the subject of a political and personal inferiority complex.

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“Barack Obama is not a ‘shuck and jive’ person of color, and those are the kinds of people that Donald Trump seems to be attracted to if you look at who he surrounds himself with as far as minorities are concerned.”

Third, Setmayer points to the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where Trump sat stony-faced and humiliated as Obama lampooned the Celebrity Apprentice host’s nascent political ambitions. Obama even pointed to a photoshopped image of a Trump White House with hotel, casino, golf course and gold columns.

“A lot of people think that this is where this all started,” Setmayer continued. “President Trump does not have a sense of humor, he’s not self-deprecating, and the White House correspondents’ dinner is a fun event where people make fun of each other, especially in politics.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/16/trump-obama-obsession-coronavirus-president
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'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obama (Original Post) catbyte May 2020 OP
Yeah that's gotta burn Drum May 2020 #1
Obama is getting under his skin Chainfire May 2020 #2
C'mon trump, let the rage overwhelm you... Let it consume you... Blue Owl May 2020 #3
When your term... Newest Reality May 2020 #4
People on the teevee 2naSalit May 2020 #5
Watch Obama dig into Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner IronLionZion May 2020 #6
And he did this all while sending a SEAL team to kill bin Laden! lastlib May 2020 #9
damn, just damn Celerity May 2020 #14
I wish dumpie would just hurry up and charge Obama with Obamagate and drag him before congress KS Toronado May 2020 #7
It's only fair that Barack, Hillary, Nancy, Adam (and others) live in tRUMP's head since abqtommy May 2020 #8
Obama: "I heard Trump was running as a Republican. I thought he was running as a joke." LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2020 #10
The word Trump can't say. Dworkin May 2020 #11
Anything that eats Trump alive sounds like a plan to me, lol. Jamastiene May 2020 #12
he eats himself alive Celerity May 2020 #13

Blue Owl

(50,532 posts)
3. C'mon trump, let the rage overwhelm you... Let it consume you...
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:18 PM
May 2020

Feel that pulse racing faster... Feel those veins throbbing, longing to burst free... Feel that temperature rising...

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. When your term...
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:19 PM
May 2020

When your term of office is both destructive and substance-less, what is there left to do?

He has had plenty of help with the destruction, but since this is all about what I consider to be trivial personal issues that he uses the office to advance, obsession with that makes sense.

I would like the next President to be actually focused on the idea of being a public servant FIRST and a leader second while showing the necessary, professional capacity to actually put personal issues aside as much as possible for the good of the citizens and the country.

Is that too much to ask?

2naSalit

(86,872 posts)
5. People on the teevee
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:47 PM
May 2020

and places where he'll see it, need to call him WEAK, and directly imply that he is stupid, all the time now. And Obama should put out a critique at least once a week and spread it everywhere. The orangeanus will surely die in a fit of rage.

ETA: Better still, Obama could give brief conlaw lessons explaining the illegality of this admin.

lastlib

(23,344 posts)
9. And he did this all while sending a SEAL team to kill bin Laden!
Mon May 18, 2020, 12:17 AM
May 2020

If I had just sent out that SEAL team, no way in H-E-hockeysticks could I have stood up in front of that crowd and deadpanned that spiel! That took some serious cojones! And STILL funny as hell!!

Celerity

(43,632 posts)
14. damn, just damn
Mon May 18, 2020, 04:17 AM
May 2020


Makes you wonder if Obama ever, even the slightest, wonders if that triggered Rump to run, even just a wee bit. It is like a real life horror story of irony. It certainly helps drive his hatred, although Trumps pure race hatred and utter inadequacy is at its core.

KS Toronado

(17,388 posts)
7. I wish dumpie would just hurry up and charge Obama with Obamagate and drag him before congress
Sun May 17, 2020, 11:28 PM
May 2020

So Obama could rip all the repugs and dumpie alive on national television and show the world just how worthless they all are. And he'll do it with grace and style!

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
8. It's only fair that Barack, Hillary, Nancy, Adam (and others) live in tRUMP's head since
Sun May 17, 2020, 11:38 PM
May 2020

he takes up so much space in mine!

10. Obama: "I heard Trump was running as a Republican. I thought he was running as a joke."
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:30 AM
May 2020

Fat Donnie sat stone-faced.

Dworkin

(164 posts)
11. The word Trump can't say.
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:49 AM
May 2020

Folks,

People often remark that Trump can say anything he likes, but there is one word that I have not heard from him, either verbally or in a tweet.

Apologies for referring to it myself. It is the 'N' word.

I'm just reading a literary classic by Doris Lessing, about life in South Africa. It is called 'The Grass is Singing' and as I read the painful pages, well...........

D.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
12. Anything that eats Trump alive sounds like a plan to me, lol.
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:58 AM
May 2020

I love it that he cannot handle how much we love Obama. I love how it makes him obsessed. If he is obsessed and cannot concentrate or function, there is less damage he can do to our country. Let him stay busy on Twitter and maybe we can mitigate some of the damage he might would do between now and January.

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