Salt Lake Tribune · Aug 27, 2019
Eugene Robinson: Trump’s Obama Envy keeps getting worse
(Andrew Harnik | AP) U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel participate in a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.Washington • Is it my imagination, or is President Trump’s chronic and debilitating case of Obama Envy getting worse?
One of the things that genuinely seems to matter to Trump is comparing himself — favorably, of course — to his predecessor, no matter how delusional the rationale. Trump gave an illustration at the end of the G-7 summit, when he insisted to reporters that former president Obama had been “outsmarted” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.