Former President Barack Obama tore into his successor Donald Trump in private as an “idiot” and a “liar,” a secret diary has revealed.
Obama’s frank thoughts on Trump, and on his son Donald Trump Jr., were recorded by Dr. Tony Fauci in a diary he kept, which was spitefully leaked by anti-vaccine fanatic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to Fauci’s diary entry, Obama reassured him that Trump Jr. is “a f—ing moron” before apologizing for using crude language.
“But [Obama] went on to say that Donald Trump was a hopeless idiot who was a pathologic liar,” Fauci added.
Public people often keep diaries because they may end up writing a memoir one day. Those contemporaneous notes may also be useful in a future Congressional hearing, or even a court case.
It’s not unusual, and it’s not weird, even for regular people. There is nothing wrong with keeping a diary, and a lot wrong with gleefully releasing it to the world, with the intention of hurting that person.