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“Fucking lunatic” and “corrupt motherfucker” are allegedly among the ways former POTUS Barack Obama has described his successor Donald Trump behind closed doors.
The alleged comments come from
Atlantic writer Edward-Isaac Dovere’s new book
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, excerpts from which were featured in a
Guardian piece this week. According to Dovere, Obama—starting in 2017—grew more directly critical of the former
Apprentice host after initially preferring the thought of a Trump presidency to a Ted Cruz presidency.
“He’s a madman,” Obama is reported to have told donors to his foundation. The two-term president is also alleged to have called Trump a “pig” and—in response to Putin-focused reports at the time—a “corrupt motherfucker.” Elsewhere, Obama is said to have expressed surprise at how “bad” things got during Trump’s single term in the White House: