Obama Rips Racist Trump Politics in New Book: Exploited ‘Millions Of Americans Spooked By a Black Man In The White House’

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Obama Rips Racist Trump Politics in New Book: Exploited 'Millions Of Americans Spooked By a Black Man In The White House'

Former President Barack Obama ripped President Donald Trump in his new book, accusing Trump of exploiting race to appeal to "millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House."

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Former President Barack Obama ripped President Donald Trump in his new book A Promised Land, accusing Trump of exploiting race to appeal to “millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House.”

The book was obtained and excerpted in advance by CNN, with reporting and analysis by Dan Merica, Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, David Wright, and Rebecca Buck.

Their report opens with President Obama’s assessment of Trump’s use of race in his rise to political prominence:

Barack Obama directly confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump in the first volume of his post-presidency memoir, bluntly suggesting how he believes his historic election in 2008 opened a wave of bitter and divisive turmoil that fueled Republicans’ obstructionism and ultimately changed the party, according to a copy of the book obtained by CNN.

“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,” Obama writes. “Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”

Elsewhere in those excerpts, Obama writes that Trump isn’t that different from other Republican leaders, with a key exception.

there wasn’t much difference between Trump and Boehner or McConnell. They, too, understood that it didn’t matter whether what they said was true,” Obama writes in the book. “In fact, the only difference between Trump’s style of politics and theirs was Trump’s lack of inhibition.”

He also reveals that race played a role in his decision to frequently send then-Vice President Joe Biden to Congress as an emissary.

“One of the reasons I’d chosen Joe to act as an intermediary — in addition to his Sente experience and legislative acumen — was my awareness that in McConnell’s mind, negotiations with the vice president didn’t inflame the Republican base in quite the same way that any appearance of cooperation with (Black, Muslim socialist) Obama was bound to do,” Obama wrote, according to CNN.

A Promised Land drops November 17

 

[DOS_patos]

If it's out....I'm ordering it.

 

[BDP™️]

First day cop easily

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I don't really care for Obama that much, but I appreciate this honesty.

 

[DMorgan]

He should've came out and said this shit while he was in office. Especially during his second term. He didn't have shit to lose then. Most people already knew that shit anyway.

He still didn't flat out call them the racists that they are but I give him credit for even saying the what he is saying now.

 

[Rubato]

He should've came out and said this shit while he was in office. Especially during his second term. He didn't have shit to lose then. Most people already knew that shit anyway.

He wasn’t gonna come out and say that while Hillary was on the campaign trail. Notice he ain’t even let the excerpt leak until Biden secured the victory.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

He should've came out and said this shit while he was in office. Especially during his second term. He didn't have shit to lose then. Most people already knew that shit anyway.

He still didn't flat out call them the racists that they are but I give him credit for even saying the what he is saying now.

lol It's not like he was a lame duck president his whole second term. He still needed to work with those people if he had any hopes fetting things accomplished.

 

[DMorgan]

He wasn’t gonna come out and say that while Hillary was on the campaign trail. Notice he ain’t even let the excerpt leak until Biden secured the victory.

We all saw what he wasn't didn't do. Still doesn't change the fact that I felt he should've. Ain't like not saying then helped a got damn thing

 

[DMorgan]

lol It's not like he was a lame duck president his whole second term. He still needed to work with those people if he had any hopes fetting things accomplished.

All presidents are lame ducks their 2nd term. LLS you can't work folks who don't want to work with you.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

All presidents are lame ducks their 2nd term. LLS you can't work folks who don't want to work with you.

That's not true at all. Lame duck status means that the president is expected not to make any avoidable impactful decisions and is largely just managing things until the transition. Presidents do not act that way for their second term. In fact, many presidents try to accomplish more because they feel like they can push things through without it impacting their chances for re-election.

 

[The Mad Titan]

It's refreshing to see trump being shitted on by everybody. I know it's killing his ego he prolly on depressants right now.

At the same time tell us something we don't know.

But he will make a killing off this book

Also, I wonder if in there he also talks about how he also exploited white folks irrational fear of us by being the most non threatening "see I'm didn't from those niggas over there" nigga possible. But that's who he is so

 

[DMorgan]

That's not true at all. Lame duck status means that the president is expected not to make any avoidable impactful decisions and is largely just managing things until the transition. Presidents do not act that way for their second term. In fact, many presidents try to accomplish more because they feel like they can push things through without it impacting their chances for re-election.

Exactly why they're lame ducks cause they can't get reelected. More of a reason to speak on some factual shit.

We're ain't bout to see this shit the same.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Exactly why they're lame ducks cause they can't get reelected. More of a reason to speak on some factual shit.

We're ain't bout to see this shit the same.

Bruh, I get what you're trying to say. You're just factually wrong when you call a second term president a lame duck. That's all I'm saying.

Definition of LAME DUCK

one that is weak or that falls behind in ability or achievement; especially, chiefly British : an ailing company; an elected official or group continuing to hold political office during the period between the election and the inauguration of a successor… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

We can agree to disagree on whether its a smart idea to basically burn all working relationships during a term because you don't have to worry about re-election.

 

[DMorgan]

Bruh, I get what you're trying to say. You're just factually wrong when you call a second term president a lame duck. That's all I'm saying.



We can agree to disagree on whether its a smart idea to basically burn all working relationships during a term because you don't have to worry about re-election.

LLS at posting that proving my point. They're just holding the position which makes them a lame duck. Working with the other side or not doesn't change the fact that in Jan 20th it was over no matter what he did or didn't get done. LAME DUCK

Same reason they call coaches in sports finishing off their last season of a contract without a new one a lame duck. It's your last year you just waiting for the shit to be over. Hence them being lame duck coaches.

 

[AP3.0]

@me when Race comes in here shitting on Obama

Thx

 

[The Lonious Monk]

LLS at posting that proving my point. They're just holding the position which makes them a lame duck. Working with the other side or not doesn't change the fact that in Jan 20th it was over no matter what he did or didn't get done. LAME DUCK

Same reason they call coaches in sports finishing off their last season of a contract without a new one a lame duck. It's your last year you just waiting for the shit to be over. Hence them being lame duck coaches.

A lame duck session is by definition the period between when an official's successor is elected and when that successor takes office. So again, it's factually incorrect to say that a second term president is a lame duck.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're arguing that like a lame duck president, a second term president doesn't have to worry about elective consequence of his or her actions. I agree with that. Where we disagree is how that applies to Obama burning bridges. Obama had to work with Congress on several budgets, military action against Syria, immigration issues, and the fight against Obamacare. Some of those things only managed to get through by a narrow margin. Him stepping out on Day 1 of his second term and trying to ether all the Reps in Congress could have prevented him from accomplishing anything during his second term.

 

[Soul_Rattler]

Obama: Throwing stones in a glass house.

Trump engaged in playground politics. He pandered on the most basic, upfront, and obvious basis. He called the African diaspora shitholes, banned Arabs, and literally tried to build a wall to keep Mexicans out of the country. An 8th grader can dissect the racism of the Trump administration.

But what Obama did was infinitely more sinister and detrimental to the progress of racial equality and justice. He commercialized the idea of hope and change and sold it to voters knowing he would never be able to make good on those promises.

He told Louis Farrakhan face to face that he wouldn't do anything that could lose him the white vote.

He STOPPED going to a black church once he ran for president.

He literally ran out of an interview when asked about reparations for Black people.

Anytime he speaks to Black audiences, it's about what we are doing wrong, what he won't do for us, and what we need to do for him. "I'm not the president of Black America."

He can show up with a basketball, or with an NBA star, or Jay Z and Beyoncé close to campaign season. He can interview with Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly, and Jon Stewart but to this day absolutely refuses to be seen with ANYONE on this panel:



Obama is a black man, sure. But he was raised by a white woman and he is not a descendant of American enslaved blacks. And he's not from the Southside of Chicago. These things get ignored perpetually just to say "we got a black president" and we got nothing to show for it. Trickle down economics, trickle down politics, trickle down pandering does not help Black people. And until Barack and Michelle address those facts directly, I don't need them to tell the world what the world already knows about Trump.

 

[DMorgan]

A lame duck session is by definition the period between when an official's successor is elected and when that successor takes office. So again, it's factually incorrect to say that a second term president is a lame duck.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're arguing that like a lame duck president, a second term president doesn't have to worry about elective consequence of his or her actions. I agree with that. Where we disagree is how that applies to Obama burning bridges. Obama had to work with Congress on several budgets, military action against Syria, immigration issues, and the fight against Obamacare. Some of those things only managed to get through by a narrow margin. Him stepping out on Day 1 of his second term and trying to ether all the Reps in Congress could have prevented him from accomplishing anything during his second term.

If you that pressed to be fucking technical cool but you knew exactly wtf I was getting at.

 

[Soul_Rattler]

I would even be impressed if they talk about the respect of office. Obama had people put fingers in his face, yell "you lie" while addressing congress, even had world leaders walk in the white house without acknowledging him.

You want to speak on the black experience and racism? Speak on how Hilary talked to you like you weren't shit after you put her in your cabinet.

Cause if they did the president of the United States like that, Kamala Harris is about to get treated even worse and no one, including Biden, will stand up for her. Anyone who's ever held leadership roles in white companies knows that white people have a difficult time recognizing black authority. They undermine and disrespect you whenever they get the chance because to them, you don't belong.

 

[BRIAN B.]

well duh

soon as trump won the nomination I knew he'd win


all these crackas ever known was a old white at the helm, so after almost a decade with a nigger there's no way they'd choose a bitch, I mean 1st female president right after


that boy trump came in w/ the perfect storm... wonder if he's regretting runnin now