Obama Says Trump “Promised An Elixir" to Americans Alarmed by Seeing a Black Man as President
Politics

Barack Obama’s highly-anticipated memoir, A Promised Land, is coming out next Tuesday. In it, the former president reflects on his time in the Oval Office, as well as the political chaos that has unfolded over the past four years.
In selected excerpts of the book published by CNN and The Atlantic, Obama discusses the ways that his position as the first Black president of the United States set the stage for Trump’s rise to power, saying Trump “promised an elixir for the racial anxiety” of “millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House.”