Yeah, I think it absolutely functions that way, but I don’t even think it’s at all calculated or deliberate on his part - it’s an accident, a product of his own addled, racist brain. Obama humiliated him at the correspondent’s dinner, and Trump’s whole political career has been about taking down Obama - except he couldn’t, because he couldn’t run against him. As a result, every Democrat he runs against becomes a stand-in for Obama in his head. Sometimes he can’t help but have that idea leak out, when he talks. This coincidentally is supported by/feeds into Trump’s followers seeing him as the anti-Obama, the white supremacist president who will undo Obama’s legacy, though. And since his followers probably talk about Obama a lot, it contributes to Trump’s mental confusion.
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