Barack Obama hits Donald Trump with harsh hometown truth

Ancient President Barack Obama said his fellow former president Donald Trump is “not considered a serious guy” in his hometown of New York.

Obama’s analysis of his four-times-indicted White House successor came during the latest episode of the actor-hosted podcast “Smartless.” Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes and was released on Monday. Obama appeared alongside President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton. They taped the show in March.

Bateman asked Obama if he was surprised at how quickly “protection and passion for democracy has been diluted” under the Trump administration.

Obama admitted he was surprised by the lack of safeguards within the Republican Party that would allow Trump to take control of the party.

But “Trump didn’t surprise me,” he said. “You look at Trump’s campaign, you look at his career, he’s never changed.”

“I mean, he’s from New York. No one in New York does business with him or lends him money. He’s not seen as a serious person here,” Obama added.

“So I was surprised that he was elected, but I wasn’t surprised in terms of his behavior,” Obama said. “I expected … there would be people within the Republican Party who would say, ‘No, you can’t go that far, you can’t start praising (the Russian President Vladimir) Putin and to say that his intelligence is better than that of Vladimir Putin’ American intelligence agencies.

Trump changed his official residence from New York to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2019.

In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million in fines after he was convicted in a civil fraud trial in New York for overvaluing his company’s assets for years in order to get loans and make deals. Trump is also currently attending his secret trial in the city.

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