The president’s authoritarian behavior and strongman threats against Obama are being amplified, and made more powerful and dangerous, by their racist underpinnings. Trump has been accurately described as America’s first White president. As Ta-Nehisi Coates explained in 2017:

Former President Barack Obama denied President Donald Trump's “bizarre allegations" that he was the Russiagate “ringleader," in a rare public statement Tuesday evening.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, denounced Donald Trump's recent allegations against Barack Obama, calling the Trump administration's claims 'politically motivated to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.' Trum

The long-simmering feud between President Trump and former President Obama erupted this week after Trump accused his predecessor of treason, a startling escalation in the fight between the two

After focusing his second-term ire on other individuals and institutions, President Trump is again seeking prosecution of his most prominent rivals — this time with aides more inclined to carry out his wishes.

President Trump’s admission that presidential immunity could help President Obama evade prosecution for what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard calls “treasonous conspiracy” amounts to a reckoning with the consequences of the 47th president’s most consequential legal victory.