DONALD Trump will be barred from joining the living former presidents club when he office after offending them all and shattering their unspoken conventions, it has been claimed.
Trump has committed "cardinal sins," which means he will not be welcomed to the exclusive club of former leaders, a new book reveals.
Elite club... ex-presidents George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter pose together in the Oval Office
Elite club... ex-presidents George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter pose together in the Oval Office
Not welcome: But Donald Trump is not bothered
Not welcome: But Donald Trump is not bothered
The book Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump, obtained by DailyMail.com, claims the president is "proud" for being left out.
Kate Andersen Brower writes that before Trump, all the ex-presidents got along out of respect for the institution of the presidency.
Their unofficial rules included:
Under any circumstances do not criticize the incumbent
Respect the office and one another
Don't be too proud to ask for help
Come together for celebrations
Unite in tragedy
Respect the White House
But Trump is said to have tossed that all aside from the word go.
Take his inauguration address where he said the country was suffering “American carnage,” provoking George W. Bush to dub the statement "weird s***".
Or when Trump falsely claimed Barack Obama was not born in the US or when he furthered divisions during a tragedy, notably called protesters in Charlottesville, which included white nationalists, "very fine people"
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He also slammed the White House as a "dump".
The book notes it is "extraordinary" Trump has not asked his predecessors for advice and points out that "even the worst, most strained relationship of previous presidents was not like this".
In fact Trump often attacks Obama who has been forced to set up a "war room" ready to rebut Trump's regular attacks at his personal office in Washington.
Trump's current line of attack is that the ex-president "probably directed" US intelligence agencies to spy on him after pushing his "Obamagate" conspiracy.
He claim is the latest in a slew of allegations that Obama was the mastermind behind a plan to undermine his presidency in his early days in office.
Documents were published earlier this week that named Obama-era officials that requested Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn be "unmasked" in intelligence reports.
The intelligence reports regarded calls Flynn had with the Russian ambassador in 2016.
Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the phone calls in 2017 but charges were last week dropped against him.
But while Trump is known for hitting out on ex-presidents, Obama is also guilty of this.
In the recording of his half hour web call with the Obama Alumni Association, he asserted that Trump's response to the Covid-19 crisis had been an “absolute chaotic disaster”.
Trump has also goaded George W Bush about the invasion of Iraq which he called "the single worst decision ever made" as it threw a "big fat brick into a hornet's nest".
Donald Trump claims Barack Obama ‘probably directed agencies to SPY on him’ after pushing unproven ‘Obamagate’ theory
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