Barack Obama breaks silence on Trump's 'unimaginable' presidency as he signals end to bromance

Former president Barack Obama spoke retired against Donald Trump's medication successful a highly captious tirade signalling the extremity of their expected 'bromance'.

The 63-year-old took purpose astatine the Republican leader's crackdown connected instrumentality firms, property freedoms and escaped code successful universities, breaking his soundlessness connected what helium described arsenic an 'unimaginable' presidency. 

Obama besides claimed Trump's imposition of import taxes – which saw the FTSE 100 suffer its sharpest driblet since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic – is not 'going to beryllium bully for America'. 

Trump's 10% tariff connected UK products has besides seen astir £175 cardinal wiped disconnected the UK banal marketplace successful conscionable a week – hammering the pensions and savings of millions.  

Obama warned Trump's presidency could beryllium 'dangerous', adding had been acting similar a 'wannabe dictator moving astir trying to punish his enemies'. 

Addressing students astatine Hamilton College connected Thursday, Obama said: 'Imagine if I had done immoderate of this.' 

'It's unimaginable that the aforesaid parties that are soundless present would person tolerated behaviour similar that from me, oregon a full clump of my predecessors.'

Obama's comments travel conscionable months aft helium and Trump were seen sharing a infinitesimal of laughter astatine Jimmy Carter's funeral, which viewers claimed was a wide amusement of affection betwixt erstwhile governmental opponents. 

'I conscionable privation to beryllium wide astir this,' Obama continued successful his code to students.

'Imagine if I had pulled Fox News' credentials from the White House property corps. You're laughing, but this is what's happening.' 

'Imagine if I had said to instrumentality firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my medication had initiated, that you volition not beryllium allowed into authorities buildings,' helium continued. 

'We volition punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act oregon the Iran deal. We volition ferret retired students who protestation against my policies,' Obama added. 

The Trump medication has barred the Associated Press from participating successful the property excavation implicit the organization's refusal to usage the president's preferred 'Gulf of America.' 

AP remains credentialed, but the White House has besides taken implicit who tin enactment successful the regular pool, adding podcasters and blimpish influencers. 

The Trump medication has besides gone aft instrumentality firms - utilizing enforcement orders - who were progressive successful immoderate of the cases that the president refers to arsenic a 'witchhunt.'

'When I ticker immoderate of what's going connected now, it does not look, I don't deliberation what we conscionable witnessed successful presumption of economical argumentation and tariffs is going to beryllium bully for America, but that's a circumstantial policy,' Obama continued. 

'I'm much profoundly acrophobic with a national authorities that threatens universities if they don't springiness up students who are exercising their close to escaped speech,' the erstwhile Democratic president said. 

'I americium much troubled by the thought that a White House tin accidental to instrumentality firms, "If you correspond parties that we don't like, we're going to propulsion each our concern oregon barroom you from representing radical effectively".

'That benignant of behaviour is contrary to the basal compact we person arsenic Americans.

'Just due to the fact that (Trump) acts goofy, doesn't mean his presidency won't beryllium dangerous.

'We bash not request 4 years of a wannabe king, a wannabe dictator moving astir trying to punish his enemies. 

'What I can’t recognize is wherefore anyone would deliberation that Donald Trump volition shingle things up successful a mode that is bully for you. Because determination is perfectly nary grounds that this antheral thinks astir anybody but himself.'