Once reluctant to speak out, an energised Obama now calls out his successor

As he hit the campaign trail this fall, Obama has vented his exasperation loud and often, assailing Trump in sharper, more systematic way than any former president has done in the past 75 years

Former President Barack Obama’s voice has a way of lifting into a high-pitched tone of astonishment when he talks about his successor, almost as if he still cannot believe that the Executive Mansion he occupied for eight years is now the home of President Trump.

For most of the last two years, he stewed about it in private, only occasionally speaking out. But as he hit the campaign trail this fall, Obama has vented his exasperation loud and often, assailing his successor in a sharper, more systematic way arguably than any former president has done in three-quarters of a century.

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