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December 29, 2016
By Taegan Goddard
Politico: Donald Trump cant decide whether he thinks the transition of power is going well or not. But he knows he doesnt like how much attention Barack Obama is getting and is also bothered by what Trump and his closest advisers see as an active effort to poke the president-elect and undermine the incoming administration with last-minute policy changes on his way out of office, according to two people close to the transition.
And the relationship is likely to get worse in the three weeks until the inauguration: Obama is scheduled to give a farewell address Jan. 10 that is expected to be a recounting of his successes and an inherent contrast with Trump and the administration is rushing to make public a report on Russian hacking during the election that intelligence officials say was done to help Trump, though the president-elect has disputed that entirely.
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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/29/obama-getting-trumps-skin/
no_hypocrisy
(46,267 posts)Pattern now established if everything isn't perfect in his Administration, blame Obama.
treestar
(82,383 posts)To get under the orange skin
If obama can do it then anyone can Obama is very likeable and it would take someone as thin skinned as orange to experience that
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)No other president-elect has tried to horn in on the outgoing president's final months in office.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)of the President poking a stick into the beehive that is Trump's brain.
Obama is a master at getting under Trump's skin. One way is to never name him or reference him in anything he says that is so obviously about Trump. Another is to push his buttons regarding power. Saying he could have won against Trump is one of those. Everyone knows that there is no such thing as a third term for US Presidents. But Trump fell for it and went nuts tweeting about it.
I hope to see much more of this from Obama the Private Citizen. He won't be constrained the way he is as President.
Actually, Obama has already expressed a desire to stay active in politics as the person who will work to create a revived Democratic party for the younger generation. I'm sure this went right over Trump's head. No other President has ever expressed a desire to stay active in the Party.
nini
(16,672 posts)Obama will always be 10 steps ahead of him and will masterfully rip him apart.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)lacks inability.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Mr.Obama makes National Monument announcement which is a betterment to Society. Trump counters with,Don King another Clown along side,just got a call for Sprint,of course the Media goes with the Clown Twins not vetting his statements as pure Bullshit. BTW,Softbank is spending 50 billion to save Sprint from Bankruptcy and regenerating Sprints Call Centers,which by the way were eliminated in the late 90's as a Tax Move to stay solvent,back to the USA due to customer dissatisfaction with their Call Centers in India and and other Asian Countries.
So Sprint kills some 25-30k backroom jobs from 95 to 2003 for Tax and Balance sheet needs,to only bring back maybe 5k jobs if the wind blows the right direction,cut me some slack.
As far as the other Company,that is a startup and some of the Softbank funding is pledged to this new Satellite based Internet Company. Look it up on Google,we are talking years before this would become operational.
Bottom line is,these so called new jobs were in the Pipeline for quite so time,but the Con Job could not miss taking credit for something Mr.Obama laid the groundwork by fixing another wrecked US economy.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Easiest person on the planet to rile and/or manipulate.