How Trump’s election shook Obama: ‘What if we were wrong?’
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“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.
In the weeks after Trump’s election, Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser Benjamin Rhodes. At times, the departing president took the long view, at other points, he flashed anger. He called Trump a “cartoon” figure who cared more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy. And he expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on American history.
Ben Rhodes offers a peek into Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum.
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Set to be published next week by Random House, Rhodes’ memoir, The world as it is – A memoir of the Obama White House, offers a peek into Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency. Few moments shook Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth.
Rhodes served as Obama’s deputy national security adviser through some of the most consequential points of his presidency, including decisions to authorise the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, send more troops to Afghanistan, pull most troops out of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, seal a nuclear agreement with Iran, intervene militarily in Libya and refuse to intervene militarily in Syria.
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