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And maybe it's because dt will never measure up. Or he hates black,intelligent, moral, classy men. Who knows?
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March 21, 2017 1:01 PM
Why has Trump targeted Obama? Maybe its the ex-presidents adoring crowds
By Anita Kumar
It was only a few weeks ago that President Donald Trump was praising his predecessor and vowing to follow in his footsteps on a series of policies. But after Barack Obama returned home from an island vacation to adoring crowds and standing ovations, everything changed.
Trump began to criticize him and he hasnt stopped. He blamed him for the angry protests at Republican lawmakers town hall meetings. He accused him of releasing inmates from Guantanamo Bay only to see them to return to the battlefield. He blasted Obama and his supporters as responsible for many of the leaks crippling his administration.
And, of course, Trump famously accused Obama tapping his phones at Trump Tower in the days leading to the inauguration. After FBI Director James Comey said Monday that he had no evidence to support that stunning allegation leading in part to some pundits declaring it the worst day of Trumps presidency Trump just moved on to another attack. He claimed that Obama may have known the agency was listening in on ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynns calls with the Russian ambassador.
Trump cant seem to stop talking about Obama. When meeting recently with Americans who said they had been hurt by the Affordable Care Act, he compared the health care plan to Obama, who clearly was on his mind.
Its a little bit like President Obama. Trump said. When he left, people liked him. When he was here, people didnt like him so much.
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Break time
(195 posts)Misdirection in any way they can
uponit7771
(90,356 posts)... ass in jail.
IndianaDave
(612 posts)I think Trump's very afraid that the investigators will find that he was complicit in the Russian attack on our democracy, and he wants to be able to politicize it - to pretend that it was not FACTS that brought him down, but the President that he has identified as his political foe - Barack Obama. It's misdirection of the most despicable kind. This BS is typical of a con-man.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)It's like how Nixon hated JFK so much.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)randr
(12,414 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)babylonsister
(171,079 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Kath2
(3,089 posts)Obama had class, a great sense of humor and intelligence. He worked for peace, racial equality and women's rights.
Trump has no class, no humor and no intelligence. He is working against peace, racial equality and women's rights.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Of course he wants to distract and divert attention from what he is really doing but he loves having someone to hate. He is insecure, jealous and thin-skinned and he has a collosal ego. In order to feed that ego, he needs an enemy. It feeds him and his base. He likes having a bogeyman. In his mind, it rationalizes his irrational self.
VOX
(22,976 posts)45's in big trouble. He's attempting to prevent his poll numbers from completely crashing by raising the old, "scary," fake specter of the freedom-hating, gun-grabbing, socialist Muslim Kenyan whose radical agenda (to be carried forward by HRC) was stopped cold by the "heroic" Trump. Thus all the recycled anti-Obama hate with the heavily implied message of "Look what I saved you from!"
Then there's Obama's enduring popularity and vastly higher poll numbers. All Republicans are happy to continue chipping away at Obama's legacy. But Trump adds another layer of hateful psychopathology to the mix, to the point of telling absolute whoppers.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)what would be coming if Trump got elected. Remember he talked about Hacking and false stories,he warned about voting problems.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)And they all, every one of them, voted for him.
msongs
(67,433 posts)babylonsister
(171,079 posts)Luciferous
(6,084 posts)Cha
(297,511 posts)desperately trying to change the subject FAST.. from his criminal activity with Russia.. to LIES about President Obama.
How's that working out for him?
"..famously" accused.. " I'd say Infamously.
And, sure Obama went through some down time but 2015 and 2016 he was high over 50% in the polls.. so of course stupid trump Lies his damn head off a-gain.