Donald Trump has continuously lashed out against former President Barack Obama, blaming him for all sorts of problems, including the issues with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Now, Obama has responded, calling Trump’s ongoing fixation with him an “obsession.”
Former President Barack Obama is speaking out about Donald Trump — and his latest comments are turning heads. Donald Trump has bashed the former president, whom he calls by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama,” for more than a decade, blaming him for all sorts of things.
The former real estate mogul made headlines earlier this year, as the president’s social media account posted a racist video depicting both Barack and his wife, Michelle, as apes.
The issues with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have also brought Obama back into the mix. Donald Trump, who claims it has been vandalized and is not taking any responsibility for it himself, even said it was, you guessed it, Barack Obama’s fault.
“Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him?” Donald Trump told reporters when asked about the current timeline and costs of the pool.
“He spent two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it,” Trump claimed while referring to Obama’s $34 million, two-year renovation of the monument that was completed in 2012, per The Associated Press reports. “You know what happened to it? Never even opened.”
Barack Obama shares brutal verdict on Donald Trump
Barack Obama has tried to stay out of the whole Trump criticism saga. However, now, he has broken his silence.
During a recent podcast appearance on All the Smoke with former NBA player Matt Barnes, the host told Obama that Trump seemed “very fascinated with you and your family.” Although he didn’t mention Trump by name, it was clear who they were talking to.
Barnes then praised Obama for meeting Trump’s “negativity and racism with class” before asking him if Obama ever asked if Obama ever wants to “cuss his a– out sometimes?”
“The thing about it is…Look, you’ve got to ask him what it is,” Obama said before Barnes added, “The obsession.”
“The obsession,” Obama continued. “I obviously have a room in his head, a suite in his head.”
Obama joked that he lives “rent-free” in Trump’s head, adding that he has a “suite” in the president’s mind. He also stated that the president’s repeated references to him say more about Trump than about any political disagreement.
Obama says Trump is “not focused on the American people”
Further, reflecting on his own presidential terms, Barack Obama said that, for example, thinking about former President George W. Bush, whom he succeeded, was “the last thing I had time to worry about.”
“They’re gone,” the former president continued, referring to his predecessors. “I’ve got work to do. The idea that I’d be worrying about somebody who came before and me trying to measure like, ‘what’s he done today?’ Constantly worrying about that is a strange thing to me. It shows me somebody who is not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.”
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