{"id":3637,"date":"2026-06-26T15:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:03:28","slug":"obama-says-he-occupies-a-suite-in-trumps-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"Obama says he occupies a \u2018suite\u2019 in Trump\u2019s head"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Former President Barack Obama said he believes President Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on him are \u201can obsession\u201d and that Trump \u201cknows better\u201d than to insult him to his face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3635\">Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified files case<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>In an interview released Wednesday on All The Smoke podcast<i>,<\/i> Obama was asked how he continues to \u201ctake the high road\u201d under Trump\u2019s unrelenting, yearslong preoccupation with him and his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLook, you got to ask him what it is &#8212; the obsession,\u201d Obama told the podcast hosts, former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. \u201cI obviously, you know, have a room in his head &#8212; a suite &#8212; in his head.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>He added, \u201cIf this &#8212; whoever you were talking about &#8212; was in front of me, which has happened a couple times, he don\u2019t talk like that. Cause he knows better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd I think that filter of the phone creates a situation both where people just say kind of crazy stuff that they would never say to your face &#8212; with no consequences,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The two leaders were last seen publicly interacting at the funeral of Jimmy Carter, where they were seated next to each other and seen smiling and chatting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Obama went on to take subtle jabs at the president, saying that when he held the office, he had little time to worry about his predecessors because the job required him be \u201cconstantly focused.\u201d He also said that he wasn\u2019t preoccupied with social media and cable TV, which are Trump\u2019s outlets of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe idea that I\u2019d be worrying about somebody who came before, and me trying to measure like what\u2019s he done today &#8212; constantly worrying about that is a strange thing to me,\u201d Obama said. \u201cIt shows me somebody who\u2019s not focused on the American people and the job they\u2019re supposed to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3633\">Game 80: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The remarks come as Trump &#8212; who has long been fixated on the first Black president, dating back 15 years when he spread the racist \u201cbirther\u201d lie that Obama wasn\u2019t born in America &#8212; renewed his attacks on Obama as he has faced a series of setbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, during the Group of 7 summit in France, Trump mentioned Obama\u2019s name two dozen times as he endeavored to cast his tenuous peace deal with Iran as superior to the one the former president brokered in 2015 &#8212; as criticism mounted, even among Trump\u2019s allies, about how the deal was similar or worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the summit, Trump referred to Obama in an expletive-laden rant about how Tehran responded to the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey tried to bribe their way out of it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said, \u2018He\u2019s a stupid son of a bitch.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This week, Trump invoked the former president in an attempt to deflect blame over the failed renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. And twice this month, as Obama prepared a high-profile rollout of his presidential library, Trump has depicted the project on his social media account as a pile of trash that he said would become \u201ca \u2018Mecca\u2019 for those who hate America!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Obama and his family have long been the target of Trump\u2019s insults. Earlier this year, Trump posted a racist video on his social media account portraying Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. He deleted the post and blamed it on a staffer but insisted he had nothing to apologize for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to an inquiry about Obama\u2019s remarks, Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, brought up the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and called him \u201cone of the weakest and worst presidents in history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3631\">New Brockton football coach, plus commitments to BC, Ohio, Army among Tuesday\u2019s four HS takeaways<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>This article originally appeared in <\/i><i>The New York Times<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president said he believes President Trump\u2019s attacks on him are \u201can obsession\u201d and that Trump \u201cknows better\u201d than to insult him to his face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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