Former President Barack Obama reportedly slammed former President Donald Trump in profanity-laced remarks leading up to the 2020 election.
Obama called Trump a “corrupt motherf***er,” a “madman,” a “racist, sexist pig,” and a “f***ing lunatic,” according to a new book set to release next week by Atlantic reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere.
The remarks, reportedly made to donors and political advisers, were a departure from the first three years of Trump’s presidency when Obama rarely spoke out against the man who replaced him.
But the book, titled Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, details how Obama’s attitude changed as his former vice president was locked in a close election battle with Trump.
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In private conversations with donors, Dover reports Obama felt squeezed to offer his thoughts on his successor.
“More often: ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad.’ Sometimes: ‘I didn’t think we’d have a racist, sexist pig,'” Obama reportedly said.
Obama was also reportedly displeased with reports Trump held phone conversations with foreign leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin without aides on the call.
“That corrupt motherf***er,” Obama reportedly said.
But the book also revealed Obama preferred Trump over Sen. Ted Cruz, apparently because Obama believed Trump was less clever than Cruz, who was educated at Princeton and Harvard.
Cruz finished second in the 2016 Republican primary.
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Trump and Obama have long had a strained relationship, beginning when Trump questioned Obama’s citizenship status shortly after he took office. Trump then made multiple attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which was Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.
Trump also took shots at his predecessor during the heated presidential battle, once calling Obama “ineffective” and “terrible” while blaming him for the “slowest growing recovery in the history, I guess since 1929, on the economy.”
