“Michelle and Barack Obama are currently sitting courtside at the NBA All Star game and being loved on,” she posted on Threads. “And this is the real reason Trump hates the Obamas — they are embraced in all the pop culture circles he desires to be in. Trump will never be cool and will never be embraced by these circles."

Former President Barack Obama said a video President Donald Trump posted depicting Obama and his wife as apes was part of a shameless "clown show."

A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” “clown” and “laughingstock.