Harsh but fair
It turns out Obama doesn’t think much of Trump. Who could have imagined that?
According to a new book, Obama called Trump a “madman”, a “racist, sexist pig”, “that fucking lunatic” and a “corrupt motherfucker”.
Check, check, check, check.
The remarks are reported in Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy. …
“He’s a madman,” Dovere reports Obama telling “big donors looking to squeeze a reaction out of him in exchange for the big checks they were writing to his foundation”.
“More often: ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad.’ Sometimes: ‘I didn’t think we’d have a racist, sexist pig.’ Depending on the outrage of the day … a passing ‘that fucking lunatic’ with a shake of his head.”
Obama’s strongest remark, Dovere reports, was prompted by reports that Trump was speaking to foreign leaders – including Vladimir Putin, amid the investigation of Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow – without any aides on the call.
“‘That corrupt motherfucker,’ he remarked.”
That corrupt motherfucker currently subject to criminal investigation by the New York Attorney General.
Ain’t Donnie Dipshit an inspiration though? :D
No aides? Does Putin speak English? Or does Trump speak Russian?
I guess my only caveat is that the Peace Prize President was somewhat awful himself. But then, awfulness is part of the job description (bipartisan) of “Figurehead Executive for a Globe-Bestriding War Machine and Capital Acquisition Empire”
Not denying the added level of awfulness of the Mango Menace. At least he didn’t START or fund any major wars, I suppose. (Unlike Carter, the Bush Crime Family Pater et Filia, Clinton, Obama…)
One can argue that personal awfulness and corruption and bad domestic policy are major blots. But when it comes to raining fire from the sky, Trump cannot even compare to the policies of the sainted Jimmy Carter. Many of the foreign policy horrors we are facing today 50 years later were at least partly initiated by the office’s most saintly occupant.
Well sooner or later any US president becomes a monster; it’s part of being the executive of a world power. Now if you start out that way…
Re #2
He apparently speaks German very well, and English fairly well.