epends. Are you talking about genealogy? If so, Barack Obama’s American roots run deeper. Both presidents had one foreign parent and one American-born one. However, all of Trump’s grandparents were foreign, while only half of Obama’s were. Obama’s mother’s family was in America considerably longer than Trump’s.
Also, Obama’s wife is native-born American, while Trump’s current wife is foreign, as was one of his former wives as well.
If you’re talking about culture and character, again it depends. Both represent significant parts of American culture. Obama’s upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia was much more cosmopolitan than Trump’s, and his partaking of both Anglo and African-American streams of American culture is also much more diverse.
Trump’s milieu is Anglo/German white American, and he represents the culturally narrow outlook of his rural voter base, despite him being 100% city boy.
As for character, Trump is a populist demagogue in the tradition of Huey Long, and perhaps Andrew Jackson, while Obama is a erudite, centrist, and charismatic in a somewhat professorial mannter, perhaps like Woodrow Wilson or FDR.
Personally and perhaps a little ironically, Obama is a cynosure of conservative morality—only one wife in his life and an impeccable family man reputation, professing Christian though not a frequent churchgoer, with no evident vices except for the smoking habit he appears to have shaken.
Trump has a confessed to cheating on all his former wives, has also bragged about using his power and position to impose himself sexually on women, has been blacklisted by American banks for stiffing them on loans, has stiffed many subcontractors, scammed customers of Trump “University” and paid a whopping fine for doing so, and overall comes across as a bully out for Numero Uno in all things. But he doesn’t smoke or drink, to his credit.
This isn’t a conservative Republican picture, but it is an Elmer Gantry/The Music Man picture—the All American Salesman/Con Artist, as archtypal in his way as Obama is in his.
So from a rural white American right wing perspective, Trump would be seen as vastly more American than Obama, while from an educated cosmpolitan American perspective, Obama would be seen as far more representative of today’s America.
Also, Obama’s wife is native-born American, while Trump’s current wife is foreign, as was one of his former wives as well.
If you’re talking about culture and character, again it depends. Both represent significant parts of American culture. Obama’s upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia was much more cosmopolitan than Trump’s, and his partaking of both Anglo and African-American streams of American culture is also much more diverse.
Trump’s milieu is Anglo/German white American, and he represents the culturally narrow outlook of his rural voter base, despite him being 100% city boy.
As for character, Trump is a populist demagogue in the tradition of Huey Long, and perhaps Andrew Jackson, while Obama is a erudite, centrist, and charismatic in a somewhat professorial mannter, perhaps like Woodrow Wilson or FDR.
Personally and perhaps a little ironically, Obama is a cynosure of conservative morality—only one wife in his life and an impeccable family man reputation, professing Christian though not a frequent churchgoer, with no evident vices except for the smoking habit he appears to have shaken.
Trump has a confessed to cheating on all his former wives, has also bragged about using his power and position to impose himself sexually on women, has been blacklisted by American banks for stiffing them on loans, has stiffed many subcontractors, scammed customers of Trump “University” and paid a whopping fine for doing so, and overall comes across as a bully out for Numero Uno in all things. But he doesn’t smoke or drink, to his credit.
This isn’t a conservative Republican picture, but it is an Elmer Gantry/The Music Man picture—the All American Salesman/Con Artist, as archtypal in his way as Obama is in his.
So from a rural white American right wing perspective, Trump would be seen as vastly more American than Obama, while from an educated cosmpolitan American perspective, Obama would be seen as far more representative of today’s America.
