Donald Trump is haunted by the ghost of Barack Obamas first term

Even though top Republicans on Capitol Hill have provided little support for President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama broke the law to spy on his campaign, Trump reportedly remains committed to attacking his political arch nemesis because he is “somewhat haunted” by “President Obama’s first term.”

Sources close to the president reportedly chalk up his latest set of wild allegations as part of a larger obsession with his predecessor. After all, Trump finally committed to his decades-long flirtation to run for the White House only after his multi-year birther campaign against Obama failed to provide any proof the 44th president was born anywhere other than Hawaii.

An aide to Obama told The Wall Street Journal that the former president was “livid” after Trump made baseless accusations about wiretapping this weekend. Other unnamed sources who spoke to CNN said that Obama has been “exasperated” by Trump’s behavior since taking office.

Trump and Obama have not spoken since Inauguration Day, when the 45th commander-in-chief kicked off his presidency with a dispute over relative crowd sizes. Since then, Trump has seemingly been obsessed with competing against the ghost of the Obama presidency.

Trump signed a flurry of executive orders in his first few hours in office despite slamming Obama as a lawless president for doing the same. Still, Obama signed more executive orders in his first dozen days than Trump.

Trump was eventually able to notch one feat sooner than Obama, heading to the golf course only two weeks into his presidency.

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/08/donald-trump-is-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-barack-obamas-first-term/