For years, US president Donald Trump has launched attacks at one of his predecessors, Barack Obama – in particular, the 80-year-old convicted felon has constantly referred to the Democrat by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama”, as a pejorative. And when the Republican Party decided to share the nickname on X/Twitter on Friday, it was soon met with criticism online, with independent journalist Aaron Parnas writing: “They are obsessed”: Political commentator Alex Cole decided to rewrite the tweet focussing on the current president and said: “Donald *Convicted Felon* Trump”: MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski offered up a spin on a Republican insult and said the tweet was “Obama Derangement Syndrome”: Rasmus Jarlov, a retired conservative MP from Denmark, responded: “This is the level our American sister party has fallen to. They are an embarrassment to conservatives all over the world”: Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, branded the tweet “pathetic”: And journalist John Harwood called the Republican Party “the trash party”: Obama addressed Trump’s constant attacks last month on an episode of the All the Smoke podcast, in which he said: “I obviously have a room in his head. A suite in his head. “First of all, when I was president
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Republicans X/Twitter account slammed as it repeats ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ attack

Republicans X/Twitter account slammed as it repeats ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ attack