A new book claims former President used no uncertain terms in private when referring to his successor.
We already knew how Obama felt about even before Russian interference helped the failed casino magnate win the 2016 election. But sometimes there’s nothing like the sweet satisfaction of the confirmation of rumors and innuendo.
And, depending on the reader, that’s precisely what Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic, provides in his new book, “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump” — the same book in which it is reported that had some incendiary comments for then-presidential candidate .
But back to Obama — his scorn for Trump is no secret. After all, Obama’s own new book addressed Trump very clearly. The difference this time around is that Obama is not using those G-rated terms he used in his own book, referring to Trump tamely as “a spectacle” and didn’t “take him too seriously.”
Considering all of Trump’s racist attacks against Obama, including and especially the debunked so-called birther conspiracy questioning in which country the first Black president was born, the above words are civil at worst and nice at best.
But in Dovere’s new book — a copy of which the Guardian obtained — Obama reportedly used much more colorful language when talking about Trump.
At one point in 2017, Obama called Trump “a madman,” Dovere wrote. Again, that’s relatively tame.
But as Trump’s presidency progressed, so apparently did Obama’s willingness to be a bit more descriptive when discussing him.
“I didn’t think we’d have a racist, sexist pig” as president,” Obama is also reported to have said about Trump.
But then Obama reportedly took it there, calling Trump a “f-cking lunatic” and a “corrupt motherf-cker,” according to Dovere.
The comments attributed to Obama were reported days after other excerpts of Dovere’s book were published. One of them described then-presidential candidate ‘s wife reacting angrily to Harris effectively calling her husband a racist live on stage during a debate centered on the topic of busing and segregation.
Politico reported that the book said Jill Biden told supporters during a phone call that she couldn’t believe Harris went there.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?” Jill Biden is quoted as saying in Dovere’s book. “Go f-ck yourself.”
Got Eem! Obama Skewers Trump In First 2020 Campaign Speech For Biden
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Our Forever President Barack Obama spoke nothing but the unadulterated truth about Donald Trump’s clear and present threat to democracy, America and the world at large while making his case in favor of Joe Biden’s candidacy in his first campaign speech of the season in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
They were Obama’s strongest words against his successor, whose notable shortcomings as commander-in-chief include downplaying the coronavirus pandemic to historic deadly proportions and stoking the country’s racist flames to the point that the United States is teetering on an all-out civil war less than two weeks ahead of Election Day and one night before the final presidential debate.
President Obama: “Our Democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie everyday and just make things up. And we’ve become just numb to it. We’ve become immune to it. Every single day. Fact checkers can’t keep up.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 21, 2020
Democrats have been hoping for a voting surge like back when Obama ran for president — something Obama hinted at in between accurately calling out Trump’s presidential deficiencies.
“We need to turn out like never before,” Obama said. “We cannot leave any doubt in this election.”
Source: ALEX EDELMAN / GettyObama also said he “never thought Donald Trump would embrace my vision or continue my policies.”
He made an emotional appeal to everybody who calls themselves American citizens.
“I am asking you to remember what this country can be,” Obama said in earnest. “What it is like when we treat each other with respect and dignity. What is it is like when our elected officials actually behave responsibly.”
Source: ALEX EDELMAN / GettyObama also said that the truth — a swipe at Trump’s proven and uncontrollable penchant for lying — shall prevail.
“Our democracy is not going to work if the people meant to be our leaders lie to us every single day,” he said. “These notions of truthfulness, and democracy, and citizenship, and being responsible, these aren’t Republican or Democratic principles, they are American values, human values. And we need to reclaim them.”
Source: ALEX EDELMAN / GettyScroll down to read some of Obama’s top quotes from his harsh condemnation of Trump in no uncertain terms.
