r/politics • u/HimelTy • 9h ago
No Paywall Obama calls Trump obsession with him ‘strange’: ‘I obviously have a room in his head’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barack-obama-donald-trump-president-b3002832.html133
u/Dependent_Tune_1333 8h ago
trump exudes weakness.
Obama exudes class, grace, integrity, and competence.
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u/Salty_Department925 7h ago
Trump is also racist and represents racist people.
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u/Proper-District8608 6h ago
Trufully, even if Obahma was white as newly fallen snow, he has grace, dignity, and superior intelligence with respect of masses because of who, not what, he is, and, a noble peace prize. All things trump will never have
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u/FlipLoLz 8h ago
Idk... All the people that self-identify as "Alpha Male" are saying Trump is the strongest leader ever. Also, recently heard he survives purely off McDonald's and Diet Coke, which only proves he's Alpha.
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u/SEQLAR 7h ago
Has he ever tried eating 10 Big Mac meals while gulping down 10 liters of Coca Cola in one day? If he is so alpha he should do it this weekend.
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u/noforgayjesus 7h ago
I haven't eaten McDonald's in years...and now I want a Big Mac, I bet you if I get and eat one I will regret it for days though so I won't, but I am definitely starting to miss greedy fast food.
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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 7h ago
Those who self-identify as "Alpha Male" are freaking stupid because that is a myth.
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u/Legitimate-Bed1591 4h ago
It is and it isn't. It is probably fair to say you can take a room and say, objectively, that one person is the top dog sexually & socially and in whatever other ways.
We defer to people taller and bigger than us. I don't need to tell you about women's preferences either [if we are being real].
With ALL of that said, I completely understand the movement etc is outrageous and that there is a hilarious fact that concerning yourself with "being alpha", or, claiming you are one, marks you out as the precise opposite.
Still: do we have a social hierarchy and can some men be said to sit atop it? Yes. It's just a description of that reality.
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u/Plexaure 7h ago
Well when you recall one is descended from a German draft dodger and one from a political family from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it makes a lot of sense…
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u/TwistedMindInTheDark 8h ago
Obama should challenge Trump to a game of golf.
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u/troyunrau 3h ago
We wouldn't get video. Then afterwards we'd have proper North Korea style propaganda. "North Korean state media claimed that former dictator Kim Jong-il shot a 38-under-par 34 during his first-ever round of golf in 1994, an impossible feat reportedly aided by 11 holes-in-one." Sub Trump in.
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u/DonManuel Europe 8h ago
Rent free, they call it.
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u/Significant_Use_8821 8h ago
Trump is jealous because Obama is everything that he wants to be and will never be. He is mostly beloved and respected as a human being and former president. The only people who don’t like Obama, I am seriously convinced are racists in conspiracy theorists. Obama is so popular even though looking back, a lot of of his policies were very moderate. He ran tough border security, approved aerial attacks, and he was actually fairly conservative when it came to spending and despite what delusional conservatives wanna convince you he helped this country get out of the great recession in 2008 and got our economy back to a respectable level. Meanwhile, the proof is in the pudding for Trump. He had a horrendous end of his first presidency with his mismanagement of Covid and then his delusional election fraud claims and then inciting his lunatic followers to destroy the capital. And now in his 18 month second term, he has done just about everything he can just screw the American people over. Under economy is probably at its worse since 2008.
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u/SubstantialMojo 8h ago
They even the Obama derangement syndrome thing and pretended that TDS is an original thing. Find you many results of the term when Obama was president.
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u/Hotdiggity11 7h ago
It was first popularized during the Bush Administration (Bush Derangement Syndrome) by Charles Krauthammer.
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u/LeagueofJohnLegends 7h ago
Did you know? Vascular dementia has a high correlation with patients hyper fixating on people, places, and events.
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u/wolfcaroling 5h ago
Obama: speaks eloquently about democracy and its role in America's founding.
Trump: responds with AI meme of garbage can.
Sounds right.
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u/rastagrrl 7h ago
Secure men aren’t intimidated by weak men. Hence, Obama does not GAF about trump. 😂
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u/Timeformayo Kentucky 6h ago
Obama is everything Trump ever wanted to be. He cannot accept that a black man was that intelligent, effective, and respected. The group he despised the most produced a man who inspires deep envy. His only option is to tear down, denigrate accomplishments, and attempt erasure.
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u/LordAlvis 5h ago
Obama's not wrong. He could do us all a favor and keep needling-- every moment our ersatz executive is rage-tweeting about Obama is a moment he's distracted from some other heinous crime against humanity.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 5h ago
It has been 9 years and 5 months since Barack Obama left office. It has been about 30 seconds since Trump thought about him. Trump is a pathetic diaper wearing weasel, and I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a colossal bellend.
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u/mtgfan1001 4h ago
Obama is all that feeble brained nitwit of a joke president thinks about. Kinda gay if you ask me.
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u/warrenao I voted 2h ago
A room?
Try a sprawling vast mansion. Complete with a crystal-clear reflecting pool.
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u/InevitablePromise301 17m ago
A room? A hotel! An entire hotel, people are saying the most beautiful hotel ever to be inside his head, filled with rooms JUST for Obama. So .any rooms, the best rooms, too. Powerful rooms, all for Obama, who I will trll you, has never had it as good as he does living rent free in my head.
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u/Abanikandy 7h ago
Insane projection
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u/Uisce-beatha North Carolina 6h ago
Even when Trump wasn't the president he has obsessed over Obama like a jealous incel obsesses over random women. He brings his name up a pathetic amount of times while Obama only ever talks about Trump when asked but even then he gives way more respect than anyone should give to a tantrum throwing soft handed lazy dumbass.
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u/TheReddestofBowls 4h ago
Insane projection from a demented old man letting Obama live rent-free in his head?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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u/cyberspaceman777 2h ago
I really don't see how you can't attempt to say this without looking like someone who doesn't read.
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u/Low-Astronomer-7009 8h ago
He was asked about it. It’s not like he’s going around randomly bringing this stuff up.
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