Then he drew a sharp contrast. When he was in office, Obama said, worrying about George W. Bush was “the last thing” on his mind; he was too busy governing. A president obsessed with the person who came before, he argued, is a president not focused on the American people. In that quiet rebuke, Obama turned Trump’s long-running attacks into evidence of a leader distracted, unsettled, and fundamentally misaligned with the job he still claims to want.
‘I have a suite in his head’: Barack Obama shares brutal verdict on Trump’s “obsession” with him
