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What's Behind Trump's Criticism of Obama

Katherine Gypson

   U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a crowded field of 2020
   Democratic presidential candidates. But when the president speaks, it
   is Barack Obama - his predecessor - who takes the brunt of Trump's
   barbs and insults.

   Trump has criticized the former president on issues ranging from U.S.
   policy in Syria to trade negotiations with China to the amount of time
   Obama spent playing golf during his presidency.

   Trump's latest criticism came at the G-7 summit press conference in
   France this week when he claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin had
   "outsmarted" Obama by annexing Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.

   Trump mentioned Obama in 246 tweets

   An analysis of the president's tweets in the Trump Twitter Archive
   shows that Obama was mentioned or berated 246 times during Trump's 951
   days in office. That compares with Trump's 313 mentions of former
   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump's 2016 Democratic rival for
   president and favorite target for insults.

   Obama's negotiation of the Iran nuclear deal -- which Trump disavowed
   after taking office -- often figures in Trump's tweets. For example,
   the president wrote on June 21 that "President Obama made a desperate
   and terrible deal with Iran - Gave them 150 Billion Dollars plus I.8
   Billion Dollars in CASH! Iran was in big trouble and he bailed them
   out. Gave them a free path to Nuclear Weapons, and SOON. Instead of
   saying thank you, Iran yelled..."

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