by NEE

As a Law Student, Obama Wrote Paper Saying that Trump is the American Dream

Despite holding no elected position, former president Barack Obama has remained an active voice in US, and global politics since President Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Not only has Obama enjoyed playing pundit, like when he called Trump’s decision to scrap DACA “cruel“, but he’s even traveled abroad and badmouthed President Trump to world leaders.  For this reason, it’s worth remembering that there was a time when Obama had a soft spot for Trump.
In fact, in a 1991 essay co-written by Barack Obama, he wrote that the American dream is to be Donald Trump.  The Daily Caller reports:
Penned while the former president was a graduate student at Harvard Law — with the help of fellow classmate Robert Fisher — “Race and Rights Rhetoric” summed up the American mindset as “a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind.”
“The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”
The excerpt of that previously unpublished law school paper found its way inside Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, the new 1,460-page biography written by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Garrow that focuses on Obama’s early years.
The paper argued that black Americans should “shift away from rights rhetoric and towards the language of opportunity.”
Since then Obama’s opinion of Trump has certainly changed (as judged by merciless animus towards the Donald, as shown below), but it’s still humorous to note.