There is no contest when it comes to who was a truly bad-ass president and who is a weak loser posing as an internet bully.
Obama was a man of dignity and honor, elegance and grace, and that makes it that much more difficult to deal with the clumsy buffoon who presently occupies the White House.
Indeed, Trump seems to want to be Obama as Charles M. Blow of The New York Times wrote in a June opinion piece titled “Trump’s Obama Obsession.”
Blow concludes that Trump is jealous of Obama, he’s like “It’s like a 71-year-old male version of Jan from what I would call the Bratty Bunch: Obama, Obama, Obama.”
Trump wants to be Obama — held in high esteem. But, alas, Trump is Trump, and that is now and has always been trashy. Trump accrued financial wealth, but he never accrued cultural capital, at least not among the people from whom he most wanted it.
Therefore, Trump is constantly whining about not being sufficiently applauded, commended, thanked, liked. His emotional injury is measured in his mind against Obama. How could Obama have been so celebrated while he is so reviled?
It’s also no great secret that Obama consistently outsmarts and outclasses Trump, like the time he roasted Trump during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner – which, incidentally, just might explain why Trump refused to attend the dinner this year.
There’s even photographic evidence that Trump’s not half the man Obama is when it comes to having class. Take for instance the following two photos showing the stark difference between the two men.
The first photograph shows Trump neglecting to escort his wife, Melania, down the steps of Air Force One as they arrived in Florida on Sunday, April 16th of this year to attend an Easter Service. The second photo shows President Obama escorting Michelle down the steps of Air Force One as they arrived in a windy Austin, Texas, where the president gave a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library for a Civil Rights Summit marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
He did it again. Not half the man. pic.twitter.com/BY4gd3UAqB
— CAŦMAN (@subzerov690) April 20, 2017
Last September, a couple of photos contrasting Pres. Obama and Trump circulated on social media that perfectly represented the difference between the two men as well.
The first photo, taken by Loren Elliot of the Tampa Bay Times, shows Trump as he walks in the rain with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as they arrived at a campaign rally in Tampa on August 24, 2016.
The second photo, by Jewel Samad for Getty Images, shows Pres. Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as they arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 18, 2013.
Every picture tells a story. pic.twitter.com/mnD68fA8JZ
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) September 19, 2016
In the midst of the ever-expanding Russia scandal, this photograph of Obama speaking with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the White House once again shows the stark difference between the two men.
Obama is seen staring down Putin, being a true bad-ass, while Trump….
(Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer)
If there is any doubt about the comparison, check out the clip below as Time Magazine speaks with Patti Wood, a body language expert, to read between the lines of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first meeting at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month.
Featured image: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
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