He jettisoned any such caution during the 2020 election that put his own vice-president, Joe Biden, in the White House. According to a new book, Obama called Trump a “madman”, a “racist, sexist pig”, “that f***ing lunatic” and a “corrupt motherf***er”. The reported remarks by Obama about Trump seem likely to prompt an angry reaction from the 45th president. “He’s a madman,” Dovere reports Obama telling “big donors looking to squeeze a reaction out of him in exchange for the big checks they were writing to his foundation”. Like Allen and Parnes, Dovere reports Obama’s vocal doubts, shared by much of the Democratic establishment, that Biden was too old and perhaps past his best.

Source: The Irish Times May 20, 2021 09:57 UTC