Obama scolds 'petulant' Trump but reveals conservative sympathies
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5AEGB)
In interview about new memoir, Obama says I am sympathetic to a certain strain of conservatism' and lauds gracious' George Bush
In an interview with the Atlantic to mark publication of his memoir A Promised Land, Barack Obama ponders Joe Biden's chances of working with Republicans in Congress, comes close to admitting to being a never-Trump conservative himself - and compares America under Trump to Central Asia under Genghis Khan.
If we were going to have a rightwing populist in this country," Obama says, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing."
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