I wonder if this is why Obama is under attack this week.

[applegrove]

Obama said he wanted to be deeply involved in the issue of gerrymandering. That would make the GOP go after him. And Trump who thinks he'll be running as far along as 2022. Maybe that is the real reason for Trump's lie about Obama this week. They need to kill the leader with the 60% approval who wants elections fairer and where the voters pick their politicians and not the other way around. Like the GOP need to destroy the old king before the new one can garner the loyalty of the masses.

[JI7]

1. no, it has to do with Trump Russian connection

[applegrove]

2. Well it could be a number of reasons.

[Rollo]

3. Given Trump's past...

Where he clearly follows the tenet that the best defense is an offense, I'm inclined to believe that he's either planning or even actively engaged in wiretapping his perceived opposition.

Bigly.

[phleshdef]

4. If he wants to be, Barack Obama can still be the most powerful politician against the GOP.

Their worst nightmare would be Obama stepping up to be the voice of the resistance against Trump. The last thing they want to do is make him decide its time to start going around the country and doing rallies and/or holding press conferences. He no longer has the chains of the Presidency to temper himself. No one can out campaign Barack Obama.

[BlueStater]

5. The orange turd is obsessed with Obama.

Beats me the hell why. I know people will say it's because of the WHC dinner in 2011 dinner where Obama humiliated him, but that wouldn't have happened if that rotting piece of cantaloupe hadn't randomly started his birther stupidity in the first place.

[bettyellen]

6. He wants to be cool, smart, funny, perhaps beloved... and will never ever be any of that.

[Stardust]

7. It's all about the ratings Obama's are better than his are. n/t