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Chris Matthews just said it, why is he so jealous of Obama? (Original Post) Motley13 Jul 2017 OP
You forgot "Highly popular." Remember: Trump's first act of Presidential Snit was about the WinkyDink Jul 2017 #1
and good looking malaise Jul 2017 #2
The uppity black guy is more popular and had a bigger crowd The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #3
Bingo! 50 Shades Of Blue Jul 2017 #5
"Birtherism" was straight-up racial animosity. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #8
Racism in the Trump "empire," starting with his father Fred, is sickeningly well-documented. Miles Archer Jul 2017 #18
Yep relayerbob Jul 2017 #30
Bigger ...Hands ... Too YCHDT Jul 2017 #33
He definitely had a bigger one IronLionZion Jul 2017 #46
How insightful must Matthews be Scarsdale Jul 2017 #64
And healthy Lunabell Jul 2017 #4
You don't have to tell me. eom Corvo Bianco Jul 2017 #41
Plus Obama puts a tingle in Chris Matthews' leg! LisaM Jul 2017 #6
Wasn't that W in his sock-padded flight suit? Buns_of_Fire Jul 2017 #66
Yeah, that's right. I think it was both. LisaM Jul 2017 #75
Because he knows what a loser and imposter he really is. nolabear Jul 2017 #7
Sorry - can't agree......... MyOwnPeace Jul 2017 #15
If he truly has dementia, he is fixated on Obama. Maggiemayhem Jul 2017 #72
Because he's insecure. Dulcinea Jul 2017 #68
Pres Obama will be remembered in modern presidential history and he is Nobel laureate MyNameIsKhan Jul 2017 #9
Recommended. H2O Man Jul 2017 #10
Strong Nevernose Jul 2017 #11
You can see it in Putin's eyes. He may not like Obama, or his sanctions, but he respects him LiberalLovinLug Jul 2017 #20
Thats because he knew Obama was smart enough not to be arbitrarily Fucked With. Volaris Jul 2017 #59
Trump is a racist LOSER who not only hates Obama out of jealousy meow2u3 Jul 2017 #12
I disagree, Obama is smart & that rankles the LOSER Motley13 Jul 2017 #14
Excellent points! MyOwnPeace Jul 2017 #16
Simply, great post MiddleClass Jul 2017 #23
Because Obama's black & unlike tRump, his legitimacy as POTUS was never in doubt. n/t Tarheel_Dem Jul 2017 #13
President Barack Obama has dignity, class and a loving nature. Boomerproud Jul 2017 #17
Let us count the ways, indeed. 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #19
He's handsome, highly intelligent, has a ton of class and gravitas, onecaliberal Jul 2017 #21
This! smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #47
his wife will sleep with him too............ Takket Jul 2017 #22
LOL Auntie Bush Jul 2017 #38
Okay--Here you go-- Sugar Smack Jul 2017 #24
What a beautiful family! NastyRiffraff Jul 2017 #25
Trump will never, ever have what President Obama has. Sugar Smack Jul 2017 #35
A real man! smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #48
It grates the orange beast that a black man is BETTER than him AgadorSparticus Jul 2017 #26
"When people's reality is being challenged, they get angry and lash out stupidly." Corvo Bianco Jul 2017 #43
I don't know. Reminds me of that old saying where you have to break AgadorSparticus Jul 2017 #50
Aha, you mean a FINancial liability. Corvo Bianco Jul 2017 #55
No. I think they will have a rough time after they have desecrated this country AgadorSparticus Jul 2017 #60
Ding, ding, ding.!!! iluvtennis Jul 2017 #61
Obama had so much EMPATHY. For his family, for other people's families, onecent Jul 2017 #27
He has a sense of humor hibbing Jul 2017 #28
once in a generation ----regardless of race! vrguy Jul 2017 #29
He is respected TNNurse Jul 2017 #31
+1 oasis Jul 2017 #63
Because Obama had the brains to win the Presidency on his own merits - without CHEATING bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #32
Movie level haterAide from Trump YCHDT Jul 2017 #34
He is pissed off too...embarrassed at the WHouse Correspondents' Dinner. BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #36
He became obsessed with getting back at Obama, on that humiliating night n/t Pluvious Jul 2017 #73
I'm just gonna go there... Sparkly Jul 2017 #37
Thanks for saying 😊 Corvo Bianco Jul 2017 #54
I agree with everything you said except "shame" Motley13 Jul 2017 #69
THIS mac56 Jul 2017 #81
At first glance I saw cute Corvo Bianco Jul 2017 #39
And Obama's admirers have all their teeth! N/t TexasBushwhacker Jul 2017 #40
LOL ailsagirl Jul 2017 #45
Can't forget athletic SCVDem Jul 2017 #42
And graceful ailsagirl Jul 2017 #44
Don't forget - scandal-free. calimary Jul 2017 #49
The Deplorables sure did TRY to project their idea of CakeGrrl Jul 2017 #57
Not to be too graphic, but if there's peeing videos, I got 1000 internets that says ... mr_lebowski Jul 2017 #62
Because Obama always looks cooler than him on the golf course. progressoid Jul 2017 #51
Highly popular not just in the USA, but all around the world. applegrove Jul 2017 #52
Because Obama advanced in life without cheating, threatening, playing dirty pool, no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #53
Obama is better than Trump in every way and he's black. Barack_America Jul 2017 #56
in great physical shape spanone Jul 2017 #58
Isn't there a saying Butterflylady Jul 2017 #65
Trump has shown he is petty and vengeful NewJeffCT Jul 2017 #67
Here's what drumpf cares about lark Jul 2017 #70
President Obama is handsome and has swag. HelenWheels Jul 2017 #71
handsome, fit, and respected and admired by many in the world. niyad Jul 2017 #74
oh, and unlike douche boy, he actually likes animals. niyad Jul 2017 #76
He is jealous of Obama for the same reason Nixon was jealous of JFK robertpaulsen Jul 2017 #77
Jealous brcause BillyBobBrilliant Jul 2017 #78
He hates Obama because Obama didn't need him. N/T lisa58 Jul 2017 #79
The Younger Buck weydowner Jul 2017 #80
President Obama is everything xxqqqzme Jul 2017 #82
It's all about the 2011 WHCD. Warren DeMontague Jul 2017 #83
 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
1. You forgot "Highly popular." Remember: Trump's first act of Presidential Snit was about the
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:36 PM
Jul 2017

Inaugural crowds.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. "Birtherism" was straight-up racial animosity.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:56 PM
Jul 2017

He rode that to the White House.

Trump is a fucking racist of which there can be no doubt.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
18. Racism in the Trump "empire," starting with his father Fred, is sickeningly well-documented.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:44 PM
Jul 2017

It's one of those times when a "sarcasm smiley" description of what Trump is thinking is probably a 100% accurate description of what Trump is thinking. If you don't want them renting apartments in your building, you sure as hell have to prove that you're better than them when you make it to the Oval Office.

Trump is one sick son of a bitch. I keep waiting for someone to yell "APRIL FOOLS," but it's July...you know?

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
46. He definitely had a bigger one
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:22 PM
Jul 2017

and Michelle actually lived in the same city. In fact the Obamas still live here and Trump has to fly to Florida each weekend.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
64. How insightful must Matthews be
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 07:36 AM
Jul 2017

to have to even ASK that question? Look at tRump and President Obama side by side. One is elegant, gentlemanly, handsome, commands respect, ready with a smile, excellent with kids. The other is tRump. Fat, three chins, strange orangy color, weird hair style, blowhard, dumb as a stump. Now, I wonder why that orange mistake would be jealous of President Obama? Also, one won by large margins, is still much more popular, can go anywhere in the world to a huge welcome. Wow, the list goes on and on.

LisaM

(27,801 posts)
6. Plus Obama puts a tingle in Chris Matthews' leg!
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:44 PM
Jul 2017

Remember that one? I still laugh thinking about it.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)
66. Wasn't that W in his sock-padded flight suit?
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 08:00 AM
Jul 2017

Or maybe it was both. Maybe he just has tingly-leg syndrome.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
7. Because he knows what a loser and imposter he really is.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:48 PM
Jul 2017

The Orange Menace is more aware than any of us that he's not fit for the job and that most of the country and the world are on to him. He also knows how, with the racist exception, universally loved and respected President Obama is.

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
15. Sorry - can't agree.........
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:34 PM
Jul 2017

I do NOT believe the Orange Cheat-o has a clue about how unfit he is for the job.
I do agree that he knows how beloved President Obama is - by some - but it is NOT universal. There is still a bunch of racist/haters out there that will NEVER acknowledge how great a leader President Obama was in service to the United States of America!

Dulcinea

(6,625 posts)
68. Because he's insecure.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:29 AM
Jul 2017

He knows, deep down, he'll never command that kind of respect unless it's through bullying. Bullying has always worked for him, & he's too old to change now.

MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
9. Pres Obama will be remembered in modern presidential history and he is Nobel laureate
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:01 PM
Jul 2017

This is man is delusional

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
11. Strong
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:05 PM
Jul 2017

Trump is alternately craven and full of bluster, and frequently does both at the same time.

For reference:


(Hope the link works)

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
59. Thats because he knew Obama was smart enough not to be arbitrarily Fucked With.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:40 PM
Jul 2017

Trump is Stupid. As a result, he's now Putins bought little bitch.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
12. Trump is a racist LOSER who not only hates Obama out of jealousy
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:11 PM
Jul 2017

More important, he hates Obama because PBO is black!

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
14. I disagree, Obama is smart & that rankles the LOSER
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:32 PM
Jul 2017

the black enters into it but I don't think that is LOSER's main problem with prez Obama. It is more of a matter of respect.
LOSER is the Rodney Dangerfield, he don't get no respect.

LOSER can't get over the correspondents dinner where O got even for putz questioning his birth.

LOSER never forgets a slight, its been 25 years since a journalist called him a stubby fingered vulgarian & it still gets to him.

So belittle this moron in any way you can, he remembers.

Boomerproud

(7,951 posts)
17. President Barack Obama has dignity, class and a loving nature.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:40 PM
Jul 2017

45 only loves himself. He doesn't realize that his "base" is only there because of cult of personality. That can change in an instant. He's 71 years old and has learned NOTHING but how to exact revenge for perceived slights.

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
19. Let us count the ways, indeed.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:45 PM
Jul 2017

There is a laboratory term TNTC - too numerous to count. That could apply here.

onecaliberal

(32,826 posts)
21. He's handsome, highly intelligent, has a ton of class and gravitas,
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:47 PM
Jul 2017

Is sensative and appropriately emotional. I could go on and on but damn I miss President Obama.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
35. Trump will never, ever have what President Obama has.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:38 PM
Jul 2017

I miss him & his family, too. And I love seeing all the pictures I missed in those years.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
48. A real man!
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:25 PM
Jul 2017

Something that Trump will never be. It eats away at him every day. He can't come close to Obama.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
26. It grates the orange beast that a black man is BETTER than him
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:59 PM
Jul 2017

It contradicts his white supremacist tendencies which fills up his core being. When people's reality is being challenged, they get angry and lash out stupidly. Ugh. 45 is having a hard time reconciling his reality to the painful one around him. And lucky us. We get to witness this in high def.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
43. "When people's reality is being challenged, they get angry and lash out stupidly."
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:21 PM
Jul 2017

That they do. Last week dad told sis to fuck off for talking about racism.
Trump launches an assanine POC detector cause he lost to Hillary.

How do we herd these beasts

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
50. I don't know. Reminds me of that old saying where you have to break
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:30 PM
Jul 2017

In order to embark on something new. We just keep to the fight. Resist. And then resist some more. Maybe one of these days he will break. I can only hope anyways. But I truly believe that most people do not subscribe to his hate and rhetoric. It makes for good tv.

My other hope is that he will become such a liability thay the gop will step in and put a stop to this. They already had to spend $19 million for Handler. And that was supposed to be a shoe in. I know they are big bucks. But midterms will cost them plenty. You can bank on that!

That drag has got to breed some resentment.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
55. Aha, you mean a FINancial liability.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:21 PM
Jul 2017

I'll keep hope for that since disgracing America and selling out Her people didn't work.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
60. No. I think they will have a rough time after they have desecrated this country
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:42 PM
Jul 2017

As they have so far. But the financial liability will just be a deathblow.

onecent

(6,096 posts)
27. Obama had so much EMPATHY. For his family, for other people's families,
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:00 PM
Jul 2017

and he KNEW when to shut up and listen!!! He was a wonderful man!!!

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
31. He is respected
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:19 PM
Jul 2017

He has a calm speaking voice and impressive vocabulary
He has impressive education credentials.
He is funny
He can sing

He is pretty much everything that Trump is not.

I could go on

Handsome, loved unconditionally by his family...see it is hard to quit.

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
32. Because Obama had the brains to win the Presidency on his own merits - without CHEATING
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:19 PM
Jul 2017

A fraud knows itself more than anyone else

Sparkly

(24,149 posts)
37. I'm just gonna go there...
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 09:53 PM
Jul 2017

Not that I'm a fan of Freud, but Trump has SIZE issues, and he's racist. What do white racist men really hate about the stereotypes they believe?

Barack Obama doesn't have tiny little hands.
Barack Obama's crowd sizes were enormous; Trump's were small.
Barack Obama had huge election margins; Trump's popular margin was negative 2.8 million.
Barack Obama was married once; Trump evidently wasn't enough for his first two wives.
Barack Obama had big support from U.S. allies; Trump can barely muster a handshake.
Barack Obama still has an approval rating larger than Donald Trump's.

But what I think REALLY gets him is that a woman won more votes and won all three debates, and he took office because a hostile foreign power inflicted him upon us as an attack. He is the laughing stock of the world, and somewhere deep down, he might know that. Somewhere deep down, he feels a lot of shame.

Just sayin'.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
69. I agree with everything you said except "shame"
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:40 AM
Jul 2017

he has no shame, doesn't even know what it means, same as humility.

The one word he does understand is """""LOSER"""""

calimary

(81,220 posts)
49. Don't forget - scandal-free.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:28 PM
Jul 2017

Never divorced.

And not perverted. Doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets off having hookers pee on him, OR grabbing women he's only just met - by their genitals. OR egging his crowds on toward violence (while promising to cover their legal expenses when they do). President Obama never led a crowd in a two-minute hate.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
57. The Deplorables sure did TRY to project their idea of
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:30 PM
Jul 2017

"perversion" on him and Michelle.

They cling to the ugly conspiracy theories challenging President Obama's sexuality and Michelle's gender orientation.

It has to eat at some of them that Trump is the horrid, actual realization of nearly everything they tried to project on Obama. And they'll try to shrug off whatever else is to be discovered as "fake news", but they can't run from it.

They chose Trump to be the antithesis of President Obama, but they're stuck with shit.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
62. Not to be too graphic, but if there's peeing videos, I got 1000 internets that says ...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 03:00 AM
Jul 2017

He's on the 'giving end' ... do you REALLY think his ego would allow him to 'receive'?

I don't ... I'm 100% sure if these vids DO exist, he's completely degrading the woman/women in the video, forcing them to act like they ... uh ... 'really love him SOOO much' ... and I'll leave it at that.

progressoid

(49,978 posts)
51. Because Obama always looks cooler than him on the golf course.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:32 PM
Jul 2017

And Obama probably has a lower handicap.




no_hypocrisy

(46,080 posts)
53. Because Obama advanced in life without cheating, threatening, playing dirty pool,
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 10:49 PM
Jul 2017

belittling people, using women, etc., etc., etc. Because Obama married an amazing and cultured and educated wife without any prior failed marriages and they have two well-rounded and loving daughters. Trump can't handle that.

Butterflylady

(3,542 posts)
65. Isn't there a saying
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 07:47 AM
Jul 2017

about a wise man and a fool. Well, Obama is the wise man and orange face is the fool. Enough said.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
67. Trump has shown he is petty and vengeful
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 08:38 AM
Jul 2017

I honestly think it goes back to Obama mocking Trump at the White House Correspondent's Dinner several years ago - Trump is getting his revenge on Obama by undoing as much of his legacy as possible

lark

(23,091 posts)
70. Here's what drumpf cares about
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 10:10 AM
Jul 2017

Obama had a bigger inauguration crowd
Obama had bigger victories
Obama was loved, respected and ADMIRED by foreign leaders
But the over-riding thing he cares the most about - OBAMA IS BLACK AND ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH MORE THAN HIM - that's what drives him totally batshit crazy.

niyad

(113,259 posts)
74. handsome, fit, and respected and admired by many in the world.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:43 PM
Jul 2017

loved by his family, as well. something, it is clear, that will NEVER be true of the orange manchild.

robertpaulsen

(8,632 posts)
77. He is jealous of Obama for the same reason Nixon was jealous of JFK
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:50 PM
Jul 2017

Because the PEOPLE will never love Trump the way they love Obama. Never.

weydowner

(100 posts)
80. The Younger Buck
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 04:04 PM
Jul 2017

BUT
he is the WRONG party
and,
much more importantly;
the WRONG colour
which cancels out every asset and every virtue
The only worse thing would be if he were female.

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