Obama in the new book: Trump, racist to me

Barack Obama scourges the Republicans as xenophobic and paranoid in his book of memories focusing on his first term at the head of the White House. The 768 - page book bears the title A Promised Land and will appear on November 17th.

Obama here reflects on his political career but reveals personal things, including increased smoking and tensions in marrying Michelle. But the focus has also placed a lot of spirit in the US race, stressing that it was his own historic choice as the country's first colored president who promoted some of the current divisions in American society.

“It was as if my presence in the White House had caused a deep panic and the feeling that natural order” had been overturned, he writes, quoted by CNN. Donald Trump, according to Obama, sensed the situation and took advantage of it to win the 2016 president. “That's what Trump realized and came up with claims that I was not born in the United States and that I was an illegal president. Millions of Americans concerned by a white man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety”, writes Obama, who claims however that the root of the problem starts ahead of the current president.

They are traced to John McCain's decision to appoint Alaskan Governor Sarah Paul as his partner in the 2008 presidential election. Along with Paul, it seemed as if dark spirits had long been watching at the edges of the modern Republican Party é xenophobia, anti - intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, and an antipace against the colored people were finding their way to the spotlight- writes Obama. However, he stripped McCain of every responsibility, saying he believed that the senator who died of brain cancer in 2018 would not have made the same choice if he knew what the future held.