### - the 'language' used in this article had me stitches laffing ahaha
:)))

For much of Donald Trump’s presidency, Barack Obama largely abided by the
convention that former presidents do not publicly criticize or attack
their successors.

Obama jettisoned any such caution during the 2020 election that put his
own vice-president, Joe Biden, in the White House. But behind the scenes,
with donors and advisers, Obama was reportedly much more candid.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/barack-obama-donald-trump-book

According to a new book, Obama called Trump a “madman”, a “racist, sexist
pig”, “that fucking lunatic” and a “corrupt motherfucker”. [slider
crackin' up haha]

The remarks are reported in Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’
Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at
the Atlantic, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a
copy.

Extracts of Dovere’s candid reporting have been published elsewhere –
including a passage in which the now first lady, Jill Biden, is quoted as
saying now Vice-President Kamala Harris should “go fuck herself” after a
memorable debate-stage attack on Joe Biden early in the primary.

[slider falling about laffing at this last remark: "go fuck herself" LOL !]

The reported remarks by Obama about Trump seem likely to prompt an angry
reaction from the 45th president.

Trump still has huge power over the Republican party. But he is in
increasing political and legal jeopardyfrom a prospective 9/11-style
commission into the 6 January Capitol attack and multiple investigations
into his financial affairs.

Trump’s loathing for Obama is well-known and oft-expressed, beginning with
his championing of the racist birther conspiracy which said Obama was not
qualified to be president.

Obama’s feelings are well-known, but have rarely been reported in such
blunt detail.

Dovere reports that Obama first preferred the prospect of Trump as
president to Ted Cruz, because Trump was nowhere near as clever as the
hard-right Texas senator, the runner-up in the Republican primary in 2016.

But from 2017, as reality swiftly set in, Obama reacted like many in the
US and around the world.

“He’s a madman,” Dovere reports Obama telling “big donors looking to
squeeze a reaction out of him in exchange for the big checks they were
writing to his foundation”.

“More often: ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad.’ Sometimes: ‘I didn’t
think we’d have a racist, sexist pig.’ Depending on the outrage of the day
… a passing ‘that fucking lunatic’ with a shake of his head.”

Obama’s strongest remark, Dovere reports, was prompted by reports that
Trump was speaking to foreign leaders – including Vladimir Putin, amid the
investigation of Russian election interference and links between Trump and
Moscow – without any aides on the call.

“‘That corrupt motherfucker,’ he remarked.” [roaring laughter!]

Like Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, by Jonathan Allen and
Amie Parnes, Dovere also reports extensively on a relationship between
Obama and Biden that was not as smooth as might have been thought given
their eight years in power together.

Like Allen and Parnes, Dovere reports Obama’s vocal doubts, shared by much
of the Democratic establishment, that Biden was too old and perhaps past
his best.

Dovere also reports perhaps Biden’s key campaign insight, that Democrats
including campaign rivals and he and Obama when in power were not
sufficiently focused on the working- and middle-class voters who gave
Trump his victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

In an interview, Biden describes the size of the challenge he found after
succeeding in his third attempt to be president, close to his 78th
birthday and in the middle of a global pandemic.

“I remember someone saying, ‘Joe, now you caught the car..’ I said, ‘No, I
think I got the bus.’ I’m the dog that caught the bus.”

### - hilarious... because they're all just very normal people really no?

truckers all talk a certain way, cabbies all talk a certain different way,
and politicians all talk like that lot! otherwise they're ALL just very
ordinary people really, playing and acting various roles but taking
themselves very seriously?

it's hard to see 'em as they really are see? just ordinary people caught
up in their various roles!

and just as fucked up as everyone else is lol :)))