奥巴马在成为美国总统之前，曾梦想成为像如今他的接班人唐纳德·特朗普一样成功的商人。
1988至1991年间，后来44岁当上美国总统的奥巴马在马萨诸塞州哈佛大学法学院就读时写下过这样的愿望，相关手稿内容被5月9日即将问世的奥巴马传记《新星》（RisingStar）收录。
电视台引用手稿中的话说："可能现在我不是唐纳德·特朗普，但等着吧！如果我无法成为他，我的孩子们会做到的。"
现在，奥巴马对特朗普明显完全是另一种感情。去年美国大选时，他曾多次称特朗普不够专业，不配当总统。
以下为英文原文：
More than two decades before he railed against Donald Trump’s“temperament” and “core values,” a young Barack Obama dreamed ofbecoming the billionaire businessman.
Obama revealed his idolization of The Donald – and what he stoodfor – in a never-published book written with a classmate during hisHarvard Law School days, portions of which are published in theupcoming Obama biography “Rising Star.”
Americans have a “continuing normative commitment to the ideals ofindividual freedom and mobility,” Obama wrote in the manuscript,revealed in a Washington Post book review. “The depth of thiscommitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism ofthe average American — I may not be Donald Trump now, but just youwait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”
Obama wrote the discarded book, alternately referred to as“Transformative Politics” or “Promises of Democracy: HopefulCritiques of American Ideology,” with classmate Rob Fisher duringObama’s enrollment at Harvard from 1988-1991. More than 25 yearslater, Obama, now a former president, has given a far differentevaluation of Trump, the current president who has promised to undomuch of Obama’s White House legacy and was a frequent critic ofObama during his tenure in the Oval Office.
After Trump launched a fruitless campaign questioning whether Obamawas born in the U.S., Obama, as president, viciously needled Trumpduring a White House Correspondents Dinner speech in 2011 – withTrump looking on stoically.
Obama in October derided Trump as “insecure enough that he pumpshimself up by putting others down – not a character trait that Iwould advise in the Oval Office.” The ex-president has alsocriticized his successor via a spokesperson since leavingoffice.
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