Why has Trump targeted Obama? ...

[babylonsister]

And maybe it's because dt will never measure up. Or he hates black,intelligent, moral, classy men. Who knows?


White House

March 21, 2017 1:01 PM
Why has Trump targeted Obama? Maybe it’s the ex-president’s adoring crowds
By Anita Kumar


It was only a few weeks ago that President Donald Trump was praising his predecessor and vowing to follow in his footsteps on a series of policies. But after Barack Obama returned home from an island vacation to adoring crowds and standing ovations, everything changed.

Trump began to criticize him – and he hasn’t stopped. He blamed him for the angry protests at Republican lawmakers’ town hall meetings. He accused him of releasing inmates from Guantanamo Bay only to see them to return to the battlefield. He blasted Obama and his supporters as responsible for many of the leaks crippling his administration.

And, of course, Trump famously accused Obama tapping his phones at Trump Tower in the days leading to the inauguration. After FBI Director James Comey said Monday that he had no evidence to support that stunning allegation – leading in part to some pundits declaring it the worst day of Trump’s presidency – Trump just moved on to another attack. He claimed that Obama may have known the agency was listening in on ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador.

Trump can’t seem to stop talking about Obama. When meeting recently with Americans who said they had been hurt by the Affordable Care Act, he compared the health care plan to Obama, who clearly was on his mind.

“It’s a little bit like President Obama.” Trump said. “When he left, people liked him. When he was here, people didn’t like him so much.”

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[Break time]

1. Red Herring

Misdirection in any way they can

[uponit7771]

2. To claim the alphabet crew investigating him is the Obama's crew and a reason they're throwing his

... ass in jail.

[IndianaDave]

17. I fully agree with you!

I think Trump's very afraid that the investigators will find that he was complicit in the Russian attack on our democracy, and he wants to be able to politicize it - to pretend that it was not FACTS that brought him down, but the President that he has identified as his political foe - Barack Obama. It's misdirection of the most despicable kind. This BS is typical of a con-man.

[HipChick]

3. Look over there...wasn't me..

[Chasstev365]

4. Because Barack is everything he is not!

It's like how Nixon hated JFK so much.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Fat Fascist 45

[randr]

6. It's all about the applause

[redstatebluegirl]

7. Because he wants to be President Obama, brilliant, beloved,handsome wife loves him.

[babylonsister]

11. You're right. And that's something he will never have. nt

[democratisphere]

8. Not me! You know it was him! You should see the mess he left for me!

[Kath2]

9. He knows he will never measure up to Obama.

Obama had class, a great sense of humor and intelligence. He worked for peace, racial equality and women's rights.

Trump has no class, no humor and no intelligence. He is working against peace, racial equality and women's rights.

[Lotusflower70]

10. Multiple reasons

Of course he wants to distract and divert attention from what he is really doing but he loves having someone to hate. He is insecure, jealous and thin-skinned and he has a collosal ego. In order to feed that ego, he needs an enemy. It feeds him and his base. He likes having a bogeyman. In his mind, it rationalizes his irrational self.

[VOX]

12. 1) To use as a shield & "weapon"; 2) Envy.

45's in big trouble. He's attempting to prevent his poll numbers from completely crashing by raising the old, "scary," fake specter of the freedom-hating, gun-grabbing, socialist Muslim Kenyan whose radical agenda (to be carried forward by HRC) was stopped cold by the "heroic" Trump. Thus all the recycled anti-Obama hate with the heavily implied message of "Look what I saved you from!"

Then there's Obama's enduring popularity and vastly higher poll numbers. All Republicans are happy to continue chipping away at Obama's legacy. But Trump adds another layer of hateful psychopathology to the mix, to the point of telling absolute whoppers.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Mr Obama warned the Nation as to

what would be coming if Trump got elected. Remember he talked about Hacking and false stories,he warned about voting problems.

[Saboburns]

14. Because 30% of Americans hate Obama becuase he is not white

And they all, every one of them, voted for him.

[msongs]

15. obama's correspondents dinner skewiring of trump - he's getting revenge nt

[babylonsister]

16. It could be that shallow. nt

[Luciferous]

18. Jealousy

[Cha]

19. Because he's a jealous asshole and he was

desperately trying to change the subject FAST.. from his criminal activity with Russia.. to LIES about President Obama.

How's that working out for him?

"..famously" accused.. " I'd say Infamously.

And, sure Obama went through some down time but 2015 and 2016 he was high over 50% in the polls.. so of course stupid trump Lies his damn head off a-gain.