Obama Calls Trump Obsession With Him ‘strange’: ‘i Obviously Have A Room In His Head’

Former president Barack Obama has said he finds Donald Trump’s “obsession” pinch him and his achievements successful agency “strange,” claiming: “I evidently person a room successful his head.”

Obama was interviewed by Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on nan All nan Smoke podcast Wednesday, wherever it was put to him that Trump’s enduring fixation shows nary motion of letting up.

“The leader of this existent management is still very fascinated pinch you and your family, perpetually bringing you guys up,” Barnes said.

“And you’ve been retired of agency astir 10 years now – really do you proceed to support your cool and return nan precocious road, truthful to speak? You perpetually look to meet nan negativity and racism pinch class, and it makes you guidelines retired truthful high. But you don’t conscionable want to cuss his a** retired sometimes?”

Obama answered: “The point astir it is, look, you’ve gotta inquire him what it is… The obsession. I evidently person a room successful his head. A suite successful his head.”

“Rent free!” Barnes offered.

The Democrat continued: “First of all, erstwhile I was president, nan past point I had clip to do was interest astir what personification said aliases my predecessor did. They’re gone. I’ve sewage activity to do.

“The thought that I’d beryllium worrying astir personification who came earlier and maine trying to measurement like, ‘What’s he done today?’ Constantly worrying astir that is simply a unusual point to me. It shows maine personification who is not focused connected nan American group and nan occupation they’re expected to do.”

Obama made a number of thinly-veiled digs astatine Trump complete nan play successful his reside to people nan opening of nan Barack Obama Presidential Center and Library successful Chicago.

Without invoking nan Republican by name, he pointedly reminded his assemblage that nan United States was founded 250 years agone connected nan committedness that “there will beryllium nary kings aliases lords, nary serfs aliases subjects, but only citizens” and that: “No 1 is supra nan rule aliases beneath its protections.”

Trump responded to nan library’s opening pinch an AI-generated meme connected Truth Social comparing it to an overflowing garbage can.

The 44th president has besides attacked his successor complete nan past twelvemonth complete nan contentious deployment of ICE agents to Chicago past autumn and complete his successor’s alleged weaponization of nan Department of Justice against his governmental enemies.

In turn, Trump’s erstwhile head of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, accused Obama and his apical intelligence officials past summertime of “manufacturing” evidence astatine nan tail-end of his presidency to propose nan Republican had ties to Russia, which she called an “Obama coup” that had been “yearslong” successful nan making. Those allegations person yet to beryllium substantiated.

Then, successful February, Trump caused outrage by posting a video depicting Obama and erstwhile first woman Michelle Obama as apes connected Truth Social, which he claimed not to person noticed and truthful had thing to apologize for. The station was subsequently blamed connected a White House staffer and taken down.

Michelle Obama was besides insulted astatine Trump’s caller UFC conflict connected nan White House lawn, erstwhile combatant Josh Hokit claimed successful a post-bout question and reply that she was really a man.

Trump has accused Obama of leaking classified information erstwhile he told a podcaster successful February that extraterrestrials were real, a declare that inspired a furore among ufologists online.

One of nan existent president’s astir communal attacks connected his predecessor has been to declare that nan atomic accord he struck pinch Iran successful 2015 represented a bad woody for nan U.S.

Trump duly withdrew from nan statement and called Obama a “traitor” successful May and a “stupid boy of a b****” astatine nan G7 this period for having forged it, only to past travel to position pinch Tehran on akin lines himself successful nan memorandum of knowing signed to extremity nan near-four-month war.

Obama yet deed backmost connected that taxable past week, telling NBC’s Today Show that Trump’s woody will time off nan U.S. “worse off” than it had been earlier Operation Epic Fury was launched connected February 28.

For each that, nan brace appeared perfectly friendly erstwhile they past met successful personification astatine Jimmy Carter’s ceremonial astatine Washington National Cathedral successful January past year, moreover sharing a joke arsenic they sat broadside by side.