Donald Trump: Michael Cohen says POTUS hates Barack Obama out of jealousy

All throughout, Donald Trump has often compared his presidential achievements to that of his predecessor Barack Obama, whether through attacks on social media or in the news conferences and interviews. Recently, Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen reveals why Trump has often shown disdain towards the former president.

Speaking with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and in promotion for his tell-all memoir about his time as Trump’s former fixer, Cohen revealed why he thinks Trump hates Obama so much. Cohen said that Trump’s hatred of his predecessor is out of jealousy. When Maddow cited an excerpt from Cohen’s book saying that although Trump does not really believe in the conspiracy theory he has pushed in his 2015 campaign on whether or not Obama was born in the United States, he was looking to energize his base with the false claims.

“His hatred for Barack Obama is plain and simple: he’s Black, he went to Harvard Law, he graduated at the top of his class, he’s incredibly articulate, he’s all the things Donald Trump wants to be, and he can’t handle it. So what do you do if you’re Donald Trump and you can’t handle it? You attack it,” revealed Cohen.

In his book, Cohen also writes that Trump privately made racist remarks towards his predecessor and Nelson Mandela. Cohen also revealed a photo from the 2012 Republican Convention where Trump fires an Obama impersonator. The video was later scrapped. Cohen has since urged Trump to step down from the presidency as there is a big chance that he would run into legal problems unless vice president Mike Pence steps in as president and gives him a pardon.

Another book revealing more about Trump behind closed doors is one from journalist Bob Woodward, and one of the recent takeaways revealed that Trump was actually aware of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic yet chose to downplay it.

In interviews with Woodward, Trump revealed how he thought the coronavirus was five times deadlier than the flu, as seen from the 1918 pandemic that Trump often references. To add to that, Trump revealed it as early as February but did not impose a lockdown until March.

“I always wanted to play it down, I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic,” said Trump to Woodward back on March 19, days after he declared a national emergency.