Donald Trump’s obsession with President Obama is leading to his demise
Donald Trump has spent his time in office obsessively worried that history will judge him to have been less popular and less successful than his predecessor, President Obama. Trump has lied about Obama constantly, while working to sabotage Obama’s most important accomplishments, out of pure jealous spite. Now it turns out Trump’s obsessive hatred of Obama has directly led to his Niger scandal being exposed – and could lead to his ouster from office.
Trouble was brewing for Trump when the media figured out this week that he never did call the families of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Niger two weeks ago. But all he had to do was offer some arbitrary excuse for the delay, and assure everyone that he would be making the calls soon. Instead, Trump made up a bizarre lie in which he accused President Obama of never calling the families of fallen soldiers. The media immediately called him out on this, and he seemed to realize he’d screwed up, because he quickly began walking it back and claiming he’d simply “heard” it somewhere. But the damage was done.
Suddenly, the storyline shifted from the usual “Trump is lazily not bothering to do the job” narrative to the much more controversial “Trump lied about how former U.S. Presidents handled the deaths of U.S. soldiers.” It instantly became a huge headline-grabbing scandal, all because Trump had randomly tried to blame it all on Obama. This pushed the failed U.S. military op in Niger from back page news, where it had been for two weeks, to the front page. Now the important questions are being asked about just what Trump had the military doing in Niger to begin with.
Those answers are likely going to center around Niger’s recent military partnership with Russia, the impact of Trump’s Muslim ban on Chad’s willingness to fight alongside the U.S. in Niger, and Trump’s Secretary of Education’s brother’s private military contracting company. It’s going to be profoundly ugly – and it’s all going to come out because Trump just had to throw in a random dishonest dig at President Obama.
