President Donald Trump’s obsession with former President Barack Obama is well-known.
From Trump’s birther conspiracy theories while Obama was president to his constant grousing over Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize award, his jealousy has been on stark display for years.
Now, somehow, Trump is dragging the popular former president into his misguided decision to livestream an execution even though Obama had nothing to do with it.
In reversing what critics call the Pentagon’s horrible directive to begin with, Trump contradicted his Defense Chief Pete Hegseth and now says he will not stream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad.
In 2009, Hasan killed 13 people at a military base in Texas and wounded 32 others. A military jury convicted him, and a judge sentenced him to death.
Trump initially backed Hegseth’s plan to broadcast the convicted killer’s death, arguing that Americans should be able to watch him die.
Then he abruptly caved to growing criticism, especially as comparisons with terrorist groups and murderous dictators increased.
In a social media post on Thursday, he said he had changed his mind.
“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan, but many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device,” he said.
But then, in a head-scratching move, he did more than just nix the idea of a livestreamed execution. He nonsensically blamed the Fort Hood massacre itself on his well-liked predecessor.
Midway through his post, he suddenly fixated on Obama.
“Barack Hussein Obama’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and the radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki,” Trump claimed.
“When reviewed by his FBI terrorism task force, investigators concluded that Hasan’s emails were not a threat,” Trump acknowledged, which still has nothing to do with Obama.
“This assessment of the Obama Administration’s actions was later considered to be a key intelligence failure,” an envious president stated. But again, this is not Obama’s fault, and there’s no proof this is even true
Social media erupted in outrage.
“That man’s obsession with Obama is actually insane,” a Threads user said.
Others chimed in. “I still love that Obama lives rent-free in his tiny brain.” “’It was the black man’ is always their go-to. Same game, different players,” another added.
For many, though, Trump’s attempt at blaming Obama is no surprise.
Last month in another social media post, Trump inanely tried to blame Obama and former President Joe Biden for not saluting U.S. troops. In the clips Trump posted, both men clearly salute troops.
Also last month, Trump took China’s communist dictator on a tour of the White House, showing him a plaque dedicated to Obama rife with false information.
If Hasan’s execution goes forward on Dec. 3 as planned, it will mark the first execution carried out by the U.S. military since 1961 and the first by firing squad since World War II, according to media outlets.
