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President Obama. Oh I really like him. This fucking birther scumbag is special.
Hey fucktard - go Cheney yourself
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)You'll puke
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Ha ha.
(Sorry to inject the premise of a Geico ad into the conversation - the concept just fit so perfectly, and it was the first thing I thought of.)
We need to laugh
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)Can't bear Lauer
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)him the way he would have treated Obama. Asshole.
malaise
(267,784 posts)<snip>
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is taking advice on his political appointees from the man he spent months railing against on the campaign trail: President Barack Obama.
Trump said Wednesday on NBCs Today that he has sought the presidents advice on the candidates for various appointment-level positions and in at least one case so far, has acted on that advice.
Trump spoke warmly of the president, with whom he has spoken multiple times since winning the White House a month ago. His complimentary tone towards Obama marks a dramatic shift from the president-elects campaign rhetoric, which relied heavily at times on attacking Obama and his signature policies.
Even before running for office, Trumps first foray into the political world was as the most prominent supporter of the so-called birther movement, a baseless conspiracy that suggested Obama had been born in another country and was therefore ineligible to be president. It took Trump until mid-September to officially and publicly announce that be believed Obama had been born in the U.S., but he has never apologized for propagating the fictitious effort to delegitimize the president.
"I will say this, I've now gotten to know President Obama. I really like him. We have I think, I can say at least for myself, I can't speak for him, but we have a really good chemistry together. We talk, Trump said. He loves the country. He wants to do right by the country and for the country. And I will tell you we obviously very much disagree on certain policies and certain things, but, you know, I really like him as a person.
Ive asked him what he thinks are the biggest problems of the country, what are some of the greatest assets going forward. And we have a very good dialogue, he continued. And I must tell you, I never met him before this and never spoke to him before this. I really, I do like him. I love getting his ideas. And I may differ in many cases. I differ very greatly in many cases.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Trump first talked about running for president in the late 1980s and tried to get named George H. W. Bush's VP (http://nypost.com/2015/11/09/was-donald-trump-almost-on-the-george-h-w-bush-ticket/). He explored running as a third party candidate (Reform Party) in 2000 (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/19/opinion/what-i-saw-at-the-revolution.html). Trump didn't get into the birther stuff until March 2011 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/donald-trump-birther-obama.html).
As for his change of face on President Obama, Trump will like anyone he perceives as liking or admiring him. I suspect President Obama was as always, polite and respectful and knew enough of Trump's mental state to throw in some compliment that would sway Trump into listening.
After all, remember what Trump said of Putin:
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," he says of Putin.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/trump-putin-timeline
Trump craves attention and will at least claim to respect anyone who he perceives as sucking up to him.
malaise
(267,784 posts)deranged