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Barack Obama has had some pretty colorful things to say about Donald Trump, according to a new book. The book, titled Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump and written by Edward-Isaac Dovere, reveals that the rather mild-mannered 44th president of the United States has made some pretty shocking comments about his successor.
Apparently, Obama has called Trump “madman,” a “racist, sexist pig,” and more vividly, a “f*cking lunatic” and a “corrupt motherf*cker.”
According to Dovere, Obama had initially said he would prefer Trump to win the 2016 election to his opponent, Senator Ted Cruz. However, by 2017 when Trump was already in the Oval Office, Obama changed his mind.
In the book, Dovere asserts that Obama told “big donors looking to squeeze a reaction out of him in exchange for the big checks they were writing to his foundation" that Trump was a "madman."
More excerpts published in The Guardian reveal that Obama said, "I didn’t think it would be this bad" and "I didn’t think we’d have a racist, sexist pig."
And then Obama's strongest remark, calling Trump a "corporate motherf*cker," came after reports that the 45th president had been speaking with foreign leaders including Vladimir Putin without any aides on the phone call.
And according to Dovere, it also seems that Obama doesn't get along with President Joe Biden too well, either. Though the two served as president and vice president together for eight years, Dovere said that their relationship was more rocky than the public was led to belive.
However, Obama has recently spoken to say he supports Biden and feels that Biden's presidency is "finishing the job" his administration started during his terms from 2009 to 2017.
“I think that what we’re seeing now, is Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job,” Obama told The New York Times. “And I think it’ll be an interesting test."
He added that Trump's administration "interrupts essentially the continuation of our policies, but still benefits from the economic stability and growth that we had initiated."
