Trump’s obsession with Obama fuels his Iran war strategy

President Trump is definitely missing former President Barack Obama.

When critics recently scolded Trump as an egomaniac for putting his picture on some U.S. passports, the Trump White House pointed to Obama’s picture appearing on subway passes used in Washington during Obama’s first inaugural.

The problem with that “what-about-ism” is that, unlike with Trump’s latest self-aggrandizement, it was local transit officials who put Obama’s likeness on the cards. The incoming president had nothing to do with it.

Trump’s supporters similarly dragged Obama into the news after the chaos at the White House correspondents’ dinner. They jumped to call out the former president for writing in an online post that he did not “have the details about the motives” of the alleged assassin who tried to storm the gates.

Some reports on a manifesto written by the suspect with a possible motive had emerged before Obama spoke out against political violence.

It all seemed small-minded, but one conservative went lower. He criticized Obama by parodying a famous comment Obama made in 2012 after an unarmed Black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was killed in Florida by a volunteer security guard. At the time, in an expression of empathy for the grieving parents, Obama said if he had a son he would look like Trayvon.

Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett wrote, “If Obama had a son, he’d attack the White House Correspondents Dinner like Cole Allen” — the man charged with the crime.

That was petty and perhaps even racist. But the most alarming reminder of Trump missing Obama came in February, for Black History Month. Trump decided to repost a video with the faces of........

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