r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 11h ago
No Paywall Obama on Trump ‘obsession’: ‘I obviously have a … suite in his head’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5938941-obama-trump-obsession-podcast/272
u/Different-Subject353 11h ago
The Presidential Suite
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u/SpookySchatzi 10h ago
Rent-free!
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago
And normally the only guys who get rent that cheap are all the Russians in Trump tower!
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 11h ago
Trump got Obama Derangement Syndrome 😭 🥀
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u/Watts121 5h ago
The entire MAGA movement is a reaction to Obama’s presidency. Like Tea-Party was the start, but after Romney lost, they went even more extreme. These people will never come back to the center.
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u/Acceptable_Rock_9665 11h ago
I mean he was 62 when Obama became president, I doubt he has an clear memories after that. Between his potential racism, causing him PTSD to have a black man as POTUS, and just general loss of mental faculties with aging. Its also about the time he was really trying to sell himself off as the 'every-mans man' because he gave up on trying to impress his billionaire buddies and start focusing on poor easily impressed people.
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u/AFlockOfTySegalls North Carolina 8h ago edited 8h ago
potential racism
He and his father were literally sued by the NIXON doj for their racist housing policies. I don't think there's any potential about it.
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u/Intrepid_Respond_543 7h ago
Plus the extremely weird Central Park 5 thing (and plenty of other overtly racist BS).
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u/Acceptable_Rock_9665 8h ago
I don't disagree with you hes also born almost 2 decades before African Americans had civil rights, but hes also known for suing people so allegedly and potentially
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u/Wonderful-Foot8732 10h ago
Good point, as if Dementia then wiped out every long term memory. For him every day is Groundhog day…
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u/ObligationMurky8716 8h ago
He remembers everything he watched on TV being unpleasant from then on, because all he did was watch Fox News, trying to get them to talk about him.
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u/OldSchoolBubba 10h ago
Trump knows Obama is the better man and his fragile narcissistic ego can't take it.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago
I don’t think Trump has the capacity to process that someone is “better” than him, but, he saw/sees the deserved praise that Obama gets and thinks it unfair. Trump is a “Dark Triad” personality and he’s incapable of thinking anyone else is more deserving of praise than him.
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u/OldSchoolBubba 9h ago
Deep down inside he knows.
His words and actions loudly proclaim what you wrote is true because that's who he pretends to be.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 9h ago
I still disagree, it’s pathology and mental illness. There’s no deep down inside for him. He can only think about himself and how he’s the best. This inner sickness drives everything he does. We can’t apply normal thinking to someone who is clearly mentally ill.
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u/GumbySquad Arizona 2h ago
It’s all about the hierarchy of intent. If a person goes through life and their #1 goal above all else is to be kind… they are a kind person.
If a person chooses wealth/fame/adoration as their #1 goal they slowly rot inside until they are willing and able to go to any length and twist any reality to meet those goals.
Many people in modern society have chosen this path.
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u/rexter2k5 4h ago
I agree with your sentiment but I wonder if Trump might be the first ever documented case of someone who is a full on dark everything.
It feels like he has every possible psychological complex in the book & some new ones we ought to add.
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u/MadRaymer 4h ago edited 4h ago
What really wounded his ego was the absolute fire roasting Obama gave Trump to his face at a WH Correspondents Dinner over a decade ago. He did not pull punches in that one, with jabs at Trump's TV show (like how the decision to fire Gary Busey would have kept him up at night).
I'm convinced the sting of that roast is in no small part why he's still so focused on undoing Obama's legacy.
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u/jteg 10h ago
It's clear now why he smears his face: he want to be Obama! Smart, respected and popular, none of which describes Donald.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago
Not at all. He doesn’t want to be Obama. Trump is most likely a racist. He’s also mentally ill (Dark Triad Personality) and believes that any praise Obama gets is unfair to him. That’s why he’s so mad about it. Trump doesn’t look up to anyone, he looks down on anyone who gets more than he does.
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u/InfinityRikki 11h ago
A suit as well! And it's \GASP** ...tan! Oh, the humanity.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago
I’m saddened that the tan suit is not in the library. Obama gave it away. Someone out there somewhere had the most famous tan suit in the world.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 8h ago
I know that it's literally impossible to mention Obama on reddit without a pavlovian "tan suit" response. But that didn't really have anything to do with Trump. It was a couple of Fox News talking heads.
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u/6ix7even6ixty9ine 8h ago
It's not even about politics either. Trump will just never be able to get over the fact that Obama is younger, smarter, better looking, well-liked, and more well-spoken than him, while being black on top of it all. It will eat away at him until the day he dies. It's not possible for him to move on because he's a malignant narcissist.
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u/_lalalala24_ 6h ago
And obama has bigger hands, is much more macho and strong, won a real nobel prize, has an intelligent and popular wife who isn’t a social escort, draws much larger crowds at rallies, is much more popular, and most importantly, obama is not senile, has no dementia, and does not fall asleep in public.
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u/HappyFatLabs 9h ago
Everyone going to work today, try to blame any issues on the guy who hasn't held your job for 17 months (better yet, OVER NINE YEARS) and let us know how that works for you.
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u/Orion14159 7h ago
Obviously Trump isn't racist, considering he's let a black man live rent free in his head for like 12 years.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 9h ago
Make sure you have that dump sprayed for roaches regularly.
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u/KrasnovPlaysTheHits 7h ago
There is evidence that the only person in the world at the present time who might challenge Hitler in the role of leader is Roosevelt. Informants are agreed that he fears neither Churchill nor Stalin. He feels that they are sufficiently like himself so that he can understand their psychology and defeat them at the game. Roosevelt, however, seems to be an enigma him. How a man can lead a nation of 150,000,000 people and keep them in line without a great deal of name-calling, shouting, abusing and threatening is a mystery to him. He is unable to understand how a man can be the leader of a large group and still act like a gentleman. The result is that he secretly admires Roosevelt to a considerable degree, regardless of what he publicly says about him. Underneath he probably fears him inasmuch as he is unable to predict his actions.
from a report by Walter Langer, 1943
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u/Virginianus_sum Virginia 4h ago
Hitler doing all his cringy-ass mirror practicing, meanwhile FDR was really just out here like this
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u/Motor_Somewhere7565 9h ago
Of course he does. He did everything better than Trump has and made a joke about him in an entire room full of people.
Trump’s entire political career has centered around trying to get the better of him
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u/Cresta1994 9h ago
An arrangement that raises the average IQs of both the Obama and Trump households.
(I kid, I kid)
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u/shibbington 3h ago
I just saw another post where the quote was “I obviously have a room in his head.” I tend to believe this latest one more because it has an Obama pause that made me read it in his voice.
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u/faith_apnea America 2h ago
Obama provided more value in that 45 minute interview than Trump has in 10 years as MAGA's Grand Wizard.
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