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sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 05:15 PM Mar 2017

Trump Aims To Destroy Obama Politically And Personally


From the start, Obama was Trump’s political meal ticket.

03/05/2017 03:26 pm ET | Updated 15 minutes ago


At a candidate’s forum in early 2015, then presidential candidate Trump without a blink said, “I don’t know if he loves America.” The “he” Trump referred to was, of course, former President Obama. The slap at Obama was simply the latest in Trump’s by then three-year campaign to vilify, impugn, slander, and harass Obama as not only not an American citizen, but as an illegitimate President. Trump’s ruthless, near obsessive, vendetta of lies against Obama paid big dividends early on. It got him briefly in the hunt for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. That made him a political household name. Three years later, in 2015, it got him to the top of the GOP presidential pack and kept him there during the primaries. It then got him the biggest prize of all, the White House.


Obama from the start was Trump’s political meal ticket. When things got dull or there was a momentary rough patch on the campaign trial, Trump had Obama as his ready-made whipping boy. Nothing has changed. With Democrats screaming for answers about Trump’s relations with Russia and Putin, and even some GOP leaders feeling the heat and making weak soundings about a probe or two here and there, Trump quickly trotted out his Obama meal ticket. This time it’s the ludicrous claim that Obama wiretapped him during the campaign, complete with the demand that Congress investigate Obama. It’s tempting to simply chalk this up as yet another Trump ploy to deflect attention from his Russia connection, and in part it is. But there’s more, much more to this.


Trump’s persistent use of Obama as his foil isn’t just to slander his presidency. It’s to slander him. It isn’t just political, it is personal. The two can’t be separated. Trump repeatedly made clear during the early stages of his campaign that if he got in the White House he’d sign any and every executive order he could to try and halt, gut, or obliterate every initiative that Obama had ever put in place. He’s been as good as his word.


Trump’s assault on Obama’s initiatives normally would have been the end of it. Presidents from an opposing party to varying degrees quickly sign executive orders to roll back some of their predecessor’s initiatives and actions when they take office. However, Trump’s obsessive attacks on Obama have another aim beyond mere personal vindictiveness and deflecting attention from his disastrous administration. It sends the strong signal to his base that he will try and demolish everything that they loathed about Obama; not just his policies, but what he personally stood for.


Obama was an eight-year embarrassment to the chronic Obama haters. He was liberal. He was a Democratic. And most odious to them, he was black. Tea Party demonstrators greeted Obama at many stops during his first two years in office with placards, signs and pictures that depicted him in the most lewd, grotesque and often animal-like characterizations. This went way beyond the bounds of normal political attacks and criticism of a president. It was blatantly personal, and showed the depth of the personal distaste many had for Obama and they were not shy about showing it.


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F**K tRump. He is not a big enough man to harm Obama in any shape or form.
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Trump Aims To Destroy Obama Politically And Personally (Original Post) sheshe2 Mar 2017 OP
FUCK HIM cilla4progress Mar 2017 #1
I agree with you 100% cilla. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #2
Trumps motto is, Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #3
Got it. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #71
Recommended. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #4
The racist SOB's can't stand the fact... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #13
And the Obama family, if they were white, would represent the idealized guillaumeb Mar 2017 #14
Sad, if Obama was white instead of black.... :( sheshe2 Mar 2017 #17
I understand. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #18
thanks ;) sheshe2 Mar 2017 #20
What a great observation!!!! guillaumeb Mar 2017 #25
Ooooh... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #72
Me, too, sheshe. Me, too. 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #41
Me too, 3cat.... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #46
Yes. Same for me. montana_hazeleyes Mar 2017 #50
He will never have it...never. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #54
By endorsing Trump the Christian GWC58 Mar 2017 #68
That is all of it, racist little spoiled prick. And he WILL destroy the human race Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #27
We the REAL people are NOT going to let that happen. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #30
Problem is he can do it tonight if he wants to. He decides to nuke someone to take Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #32
Yeah sheshe2 Mar 2017 #84
Trump's in over his head Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 #5
I only hope 45 head bdamomma Mar 2017 #24
Fuck all trumps. nt TeamPooka Mar 2017 #6
Fuck him and his hate filled voters.. mountain grammy Mar 2017 #7
drumpf is a tiny little man baby mcar Mar 2017 #8
I doubt it loyalsister Mar 2017 #9
How's That Working For The Twitter Me. Mar 2017 #10
Jealous rears it's ugly head. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #11
Right? Me. Mar 2017 #19
Right sheshe2 Mar 2017 #21
! Me. Mar 2017 #22
Backatcha sheshe2 Mar 2017 #26
Please proceed, Orange Man. Bleacher Creature Mar 2017 #12
I know, right?! sheshe2 Mar 2017 #15
It must kill him that O just made a $60 million book deal. Vinca Mar 2017 #16
Bingo. dalton99a Mar 2017 #23
Bwahahahahahahaha sheshe2 Mar 2017 #31
And that Obama's first SOTU was watched by more people than Chump's Lanius Mar 2017 #34
Trump is a joke C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #28
The grunge on the bottom of the garbage can behind the local burger shack where a fly Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #29
Well said! sheshe2 Mar 2017 #42
Obama will be remembered for helping the economy recover after a disastrous Republican presidency Lanius Mar 2017 #33
Yep. Mitch McConnell has been trying to nullify him for eight long years. joet67 Mar 2017 #35
Spoken by the man who had to have hookers Lithos Mar 2017 #36
DT is one very sick man. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #38
Agreed Lithos Mar 2017 #39
Insainity is one of them. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #43
K&R Solly Mack Mar 2017 #37
Trump will fail Gothmog Mar 2017 #40
Trump is like an overripe pumpkin trying to hurl himself into a block of granite..... virtualobserver Mar 2017 #44
Yes he will...bigly. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #45
He can't malaise Mar 2017 #47
We can take him malaise. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #49
May I say yet again NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #48
Lol.... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #51
The panda vid? It did make me smile NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #58
Ooopsie....did not give ya the link. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #61
S'ok, I found it NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #63
Swing.....and a miss. Swing and a miss. Swing... Freethinker65 Mar 2017 #52
In the end, Obama will likely outlive Trump by more than 30 years. tritsofme Mar 2017 #53
Cheetolini Ccarmona Mar 2017 #55
Well, he's on a fool's errand.. that's not going to happen. Cha Mar 2017 #56
"Stop Mumbling so much" sheshe2 Mar 2017 #59
a snowball's chance in hell... spanone Mar 2017 #57
ROFLMMFAO!!! Hey Trump....GO FOR IT asshat.............nt Bengus81 Mar 2017 #60
Ha! sheshe2 Mar 2017 #62
She speKs the truth. world wide wally Mar 2017 #64
That's a dangerous and self defeating game. Turbineguy Mar 2017 #65
Did this contribute to it? Thin skin? janx Mar 2017 #66
I am sure it did. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #67
He may aim, but his aim will be worse than most husbands' aim at the bedroom toilet. Stinky The Clown Mar 2017 #69
Could be why he sits for hours tweeting... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #70
"I am not shitting you" Stinky The Clown Mar 2017 #74
Ha............... sheshe2 Mar 2017 #75
Maybe Trump is a world class Machiavellian... Blue Idaho Mar 2017 #73
Good luck with that, you asshole. GoCubsGo Mar 2017 #76
GoCubsGo sheshe2 Mar 2017 #78
this is so true KT2000 Mar 2017 #77
Of course Trump hates Obama's guts. Obama is black. Doodley Mar 2017 #79
Hey Van, he's really getting presidential now Blue Owl Mar 2017 #80
He's obsessed! JHan Mar 2017 #81
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheshe2 Mar 2017 #83
Tables need to be turned on drumpf. democratisphere Mar 2017 #82
horrified k and r, with deepest thanks for finding this. niyad Mar 2017 #85
Trump supporters do not ever get to lecture us on disrespecting the president, ever! Initech Mar 2017 #86

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. Recommended.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 05:21 PM
Mar 2017

And Trump's KKKAbinet is filled with current or former KKK members and sympathizers.

The GOP conspired to delegitimize Obama. McConnell, Gingrich, deMint and others were determined to marginalize Obama and prevent him from doing anything. The constant statements that Obama did not understand how Americans feel about things were grounded in pure racism.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
13. The racist SOB's can't stand the fact...
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:23 PM
Mar 2017

that Obama...A BLACK MAN... is better and brighter than anyone of them. He out maneuverers them and they can't handle all the egg that they have on their face.

I love reading on other sites that they believe they are WINNING when in fact they are WHINING. Those Conserva-TOTS are amusing.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
14. And the Obama family, if they were white, would represent the idealized
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:26 PM
Mar 2017

American Family that the GOP loves to hold up as an example. A married, Christian family with 2 adorable children.

In contrast to the Trump family of thieves, or the Palin family of jobless drunks.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
17. Sad, if Obama was white instead of black.... :(
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:41 PM
Mar 2017

Well we all know they are not Christians.

Real Christians do not murder innocent people by taking away their healthcare.

Real Christians do not take a way a woman's basic prenatal care, because a clinic they go to provides a small number of abortions.

Real Christians do not separate a mother and child at the border because mom came here illegally, yet never committed a crime here.

I could go on...I can't right now.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
25. What a great observation!!!!
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:56 PM
Mar 2017

I nearly choked on a piece of chocolate when I read your answer.

Thanks for the choking Obama.

3catwoman3

(24,038 posts)
41. Me, too, sheshe. Me, too.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:59 PM
Mar 2017

I kept finding myself saying, "Please don't go. Please don't go. PLEASE DON'T GO!!!" Even though there was no way he could stay.

montana_hazeleyes

(3,424 posts)
50. Yes. Same for me.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:11 PM
Mar 2017

We just want to keep him with us.


I despise the racists who have treated our awesome President Obama and his beautiful family the way they have. And especially the decrepit, evil monster who snuck into office.

How dare him to throw this new bull sh!t at him! He's riling up his racist, lowdown worshipers into a higher hatred of President Obama. He is so jealous and wishes he had the real kind of respect and admiration and love so many people have for President Obama.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
54. He will never have it...never.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:15 PM
Mar 2017
He is so jealous and wishes he had the real kind of respect and admiration and love so many people have for President Obama.


Thanks montana~

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
68. By endorsing Trump the Christian
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 09:24 PM
Mar 2017

Right showed just how full of shit & hypocrisy they are! They continue to demonize a plant that, I assume, their God put here. Yeah, they're so full of shit it's backed up and coming out of their mouth! As for Trump I can't remember a current president dissing his predecessor the way this one does. 😵😖

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
27. That is all of it, racist little spoiled prick. And he WILL destroy the human race
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:58 PM
Mar 2017

if necessary to exact his revenge.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
32. Problem is he can do it tonight if he wants to. He decides to nuke someone to take
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:04 PM
Mar 2017

the heat off of his treason, and then one thing leads to another, etc

On climate change he has already sentenced the human race to annihilation.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
84. Yeah
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 02:53 AM
Mar 2017

Well, it is why I get up every morning to check the news to see if he destroyed the world while I was sleeping.

If he does he is worse than anyone believed him to be as he would be killing his own grandchildren. Gotta say, not sure he cares for anyone but himself.

Climate change. Yes I am fully aware what he is trying to destroy...won't matter when he hits the button.

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
24. I only hope 45 head
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:56 PM
Mar 2017

will explode, what a stupid ass he is.

Always looking to blame someone else, this is quite evident.

mountain grammy

(26,647 posts)
7. Fuck him and his hate filled voters..
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 05:33 PM
Mar 2017

an election of hate and it worked. It got me to hate people.

John Fuglesang says hate makes you stupid. I'm not stupid, but, increasingly, I hate. I think of Hitler coming to power and his opponents hated him. Were they stupid? I think we're pretty close to that here and we better turn our hate into action before it's too late.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
9. I doubt it
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 05:56 PM
Mar 2017

It wasn't so much his own animosity towards Obama that put him on the national political stage. It was the people who believed what he was saying. I think he's still harnassing hate to maintain his support when he's making decisions that could prove to be unpopular with some of his own voters. I don't think he actually cares enough to hate Obama. He just wants to use the hate of others to turn attention onto himself and the un-presidential character who seems to love being the center of attention and controversy whether it's negative or positive.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
15. I know, right?!
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:26 PM
Mar 2017

Ha....for a man that wants to make America White again....why does he color himself orange?

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
29. The grunge on the bottom of the garbage can behind the local burger shack where a fly
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:01 PM
Mar 2017

just landed which earlier that day sat on a pile of Obama's poo, has more value to society than all trumps and friends combined.

Lanius

(599 posts)
33. Obama will be remembered for helping the economy recover after a disastrous Republican presidency
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:17 PM
Mar 2017

and for being a voice of calm and reason in these hyper-partisan times.

OTOH, if things keep going the way they're going, Drumpf is going to be one of the most hated and unaccomplished presidents in history.

joet67

(624 posts)
35. Yep. Mitch McConnell has been trying to nullify him for eight long years.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:20 PM
Mar 2017

He's out for blood. "Root and branch" my ass. F him.

Lithos

(26,404 posts)
36. Spoken by the man who had to have hookers
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 07:41 PM
Mar 2017

Pee on him in the same bed Obama slept in...

Talk about a disturbing obsession...

He will never be the man Obama is... Not even a shadow of the man...

L-

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
44. Trump is like an overripe pumpkin trying to hurl himself into a block of granite.....
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:01 PM
Mar 2017

Obama will barely notice the impact.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
48. May I say yet again
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:08 PM
Mar 2017

how much I hate the tweeting orangutan and love the Obama family?

A hateful, blowhard bigot vs. an intelligent, kind, classy family? Yeah, no contest.

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
51. Lol....
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:13 PM
Mar 2017

Watch the vid here...will make you smile, NR.

I told guillaumeb that it was the way I felt when Obama left office.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
58. The panda vid? It did make me smile
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:20 PM
Mar 2017

I love pandas. I already miss Bao Bao at the National Zoo. Yes, I wanted to grab Obama by the ankles and not let go!

tritsofme

(17,399 posts)
53. In the end, Obama will likely outlive Trump by more than 30 years.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:14 PM
Mar 2017

He will have the opportunity to shape his own legacy in a way that will far outlast this dark four year period.

 

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)
55. Cheetolini
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:17 PM
Mar 2017

Never has gotten over the Obama's roasting of him at the Correspondence's Dinner in 2011. He's such a petty individual, I'm sure he still holds a grudge.

Cha

(297,603 posts)
56. Well, he's on a fool's errand.. that's not going to happen.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:17 PM
Mar 2017



Thank you for this, she.. As President Obama would say..

"Please Proceed Asshole"

sheshe2

(83,879 posts)
70. Could be why he sits for hours tweeting...
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 09:36 PM
Mar 2017

Easier to hit the bowl with his tiny dick. I am not shitting you....Lol.

Blue Idaho

(5,057 posts)
73. Maybe Trump is a world class Machiavellian...
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 09:39 PM
Mar 2017

Or perhaps he's an illiterate mercurial spoiled brat that has always had enough money and enough cover so that others could push or pay his disasters away.

I think I'll pick option two.

KT2000

(20,586 posts)
77. this is so true
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 09:59 PM
Mar 2017

he will not stop. With the help of Bannon and fake news it will go on and on. Dump's guiding principle is to kill (learned from his father)and anything less is a failure.

Initech

(100,100 posts)
86. Trump supporters do not ever get to lecture us on disrespecting the president, ever!
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 02:55 PM
Mar 2017

Their attacks on Obama since the beginning have just been brutal. And in office, they've done some irreparable damage to the country, and given us clowns like Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, and Matt Bevin. Fuck them and theit whole damn party!

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