Barack Obama: Rise of Trump ‘a racist reaction to a black President’

Barack Obama slams Republicans as xenophobic and paranoid in his forthcoming memoir, which focuses on his first term in the White House. In the 768-page tome, entitled ‘A Promised Land’ and out on November 17, Obama reflects on his political career but divulges in the personal, admitting life in the White House increased his smoking … Read more

Barack Obama’s new book attacks Donald Trump’s birtherism

Barack Obama slams Republicans as xenophobic and paranoid in his forthcoming memoir, which focuses on his first term in the White House. In the 768-page tome, entitled ‘A Promised Land’ and out on November 17, Obama reflects on his political career but divulges in the personal, admitting life in the White House increased his smoking … Read more

Barack Obama stuns with basketball skills on campaign with Joe Biden

Barack Obama stunned campaign staff in Michigan on Saturday as he walked onto a basketball court, was passed the ball, and made a seemingly effortless basket from a distance.  ‘That’s what I do,’ he said, delighted, as Joe Biden – with whom he was campaigning – looked on from the sidelines in a gym in Flint, … Read more

Barack Obama rips into Trump as ‘jealous of COVID’s media coverage’

Former President Barack Obama ripped into President Donald Trump over the Republican’s recent complains about the media’s constant focus on the coronavirus crisis.  ‘He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage!’ Obama remarked to a crowd of 273 cars at a drive-in style event in Orlando, Florida Tuesday.   Trump made is clear he was watching Obama hammer him, … Read more

Barack Obama says he and Michelle wish Donald and Melania Trump speedy recovery

Barack Obama says he and Michelle wish Donald and Melania Trump a speedy recovery and asserts that ‘in the midst of political battles we are all Americans’ President Obama, together with his wife Michelle, have sent their best wishes for a ‘speedy recovery’ to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump  ‘It’s important for … Read more

Julian Assange is being persecuted by Donald Trump to get back at Barack Obama, court hears

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being persecuted by Donald Trump because of the President’s ‘considerable personal antipathy’ to Barack Obama, a professor of peace studies told his extradition hearing in London today. Professor Paul Rogers called Assange’s prosecution politically motivated, and said his political opinions put him in the ‘crosshairs’ of the Trump administration. Assange, 49, … Read more

Barack Obama recalls meeting the late Chadwick Boseman at the White House

Former President Barack Obama shared a memory of a short but meaningful meeting with the late Chadwick Boseman on Saturday morning. The Black Panther star, who died on Friday at age 43, had visited the White House in 2013, shortly after he played Jackie Robinson in the biopic 42. Obama, 59, wrote that he could … Read more

Donald Trump rage-tweets at Barack Obama after his predecessor calls him a threat to democracy

Good evening, everybody. As you’ve seen by now, this isn’t a normal convention. It’s not a normal time. So tonight, I want to talk as plainly as I can about the stakes in this election. Because what we do these next 76 days will echo through generations to come. I’m in Philadelphia, where our Constitution … Read more

Barack Obama flames Donald Trump for ‘making stuff up and teargassing peaceful protesters’

Barack Obama unleashed on President Donald Trump in his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, saying the administration would do anything to win even if it meant tearing down America’s democracy. He made a clear, concise argument on why Trump was unqualified to serve in the Oval Office, sounding presidential as he … Read more

Barack Obama will unload on Donald Trump saying he’s lazy and incapable

Former President Barack Obama will deliver a harsh assessment of President Donald Trump and pledge that Joe Biden will lead the country ‘out of dark times’ in an address set at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia Wednesday night.  There, he’ll vouch for his ‘friend’ and ‘brother,’ former Vice President Joe Biden, while casting President … Read more