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Obama lives in Trump’s head, rent free

 
Casper 2020-05-18 09:36:45 

No one irritates Donald Trump quite like Barack Obama.


Trump’s run for president was in part triggered by his enmity for Obama, his desire to one-up him, and he has performed his presidency as a singularly focused attempt at Obama erasure, dismantling what he can of what Obama built and undoing policies Obama instituted.
Obama is everything that Trump is not: intellectual, articulate, adroit, contemplative and cool. He also happens to be a black man. The fact that he could not only ascend to the height of power but also the heights of celebrity and adoration vexed Trump.
Trump set about to demonstrate that none of that mattered, none of it could supersede the talents of a confident counterfeit. He convinced himself that Obama was the convenient recipient of affirmative action adulation from a world thirsty for racial recompense, an assuaging of white guilt.

 
birdseye 2020-05-18 11:09:23 

In reply to Casper

I didn’t read the whole article, I will. The writer gives Trump way too much credit for intellectual nimbleness --- he could have saved a few trees and black ink on white paper by just saying that the essence of Trump is bigotry, developed thru his ontogenesis, nurtured in his phylogenies ,sui generis.
sad sad sad