Why does Trump dislike Obama?

You have to go back to school for the answer

Remember the very big, very dim class bully who wanted to beat you, the one imbued with brain and not brawn?

He could beat you because he could. Might endows some inalienable rights.

But he wanted to, not for the reason that he could, but because his intelligence was always put to shame by your very existence.

You were bright and he was, as I said, dim.

It wasn’t envy. It was the sheer frustration of knowing that no matter how much he might exercise his body, his brain was condemned forever to be as frail as your body was.

When you look back and examine the rants of Trump before he became anointed, he went at Obama with a racist fury: his birth, his religion, his very citizenship. I don’t know if Trump is truly racist or not, though signs exist like the lingering spoor of animals. 

But he abused Obama because how could a black man be smarter, oh so much smarter than a white man and that too someone born into privilege?

And even now, after he has all the bullying power of the Presidency, Trump continued to talk of Obama.Bad man, sick man he tweeted.

And then he proceeds, with no forethought or alternative vision, to try to dismantle Obamacare.  He has not succeeded yet.He got rid of all the scientists in the EPA. He attacked the anti-coal legislation. He presents a budget which at its core seems to be anti-Obama, i.e. it’s pro rich and anti-poor. 

This is like the bully saying, “ So you think you are better than me. Let me take away your baseball glove, your bat and ball and let’s see how smart you are?”

It is sad watching this. It’s unfortunately tragic for the people of a country you want to hold to a higher standard, and it is calamitous for the world when the most powerful country in the world presents its power as procrustean muscle.

Yesterday he withdrew from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.  This was something that Obama had worked on very hard for years. 

It felt almost like Trump was wagging his fingers and saying, Take that Barack!

Admittedly  Trump has said that global warming is a hoax. He is of that ilk who believe that science is over rated. And why wouldn’t he and they? After all they don’t understand it. They would make a virtue of ignorance. So they react wth vitriol, flinging acid in the face of reason.

Trump seems to go beyond dislike of Obama. He seems to hate him.

Intelligence is truly the thorn in the flesh of stupid people.