讽刺！奥巴马25年前手稿：想成川普一样的人

据该电视台报道，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》（Rising Star）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 of becoming the billionaire businessman.

Obama revealed his idolization of The Donald – and what he stood for – in a never-published book written with a classmate during his Harvard Law School days, portions of which are published in the upcoming Obama biography “Rising Star.”

Americans have a “continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility,” Obama wrote in the manuscript, revealed in a Washington Post book review. “The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American — I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”

Obama wrote the discarded book, alternately referred to as “Transformative Politics” or “Promises of Democracy: Hopeful Critiques of American Ideology,” with classmate Rob Fisher during Obama’s enrollment at Harvard from 1988-1991. More than 25 years later, Obama, now a former president, has given a far different evaluation of Trump, the current president who has promised to undo much of Obama’s White House legacy and was a frequent critic of Obama during his tenure in the Oval Office.

After Trump launched a fruitless campaign questioning whether Obama was born in the U.S., Obama, as president, viciously needled Trump during a White House Correspondents Dinner speech in 2011 – with Trump looking on stoically.

Obama in October derided Trump as “insecure enough that he pumps himself up by putting others down – not a character trait that I would advise in the Oval Office.” The ex-president has also criticized his successor via a spokesperson since leaving office.