Former U.S. president @BarackObama says U.S.-Canada relations "can be mended relatively quickly” in Trump& #39;s aftermath.

He talks to @mattgallowaycbc about racism in the Trump era, and the task facing a Biden presidency — tune in at 8:37am on CBC Radio One https://twitter.com/cbcradio/status/1330843545519919104">https://twitter.com/cbcradio/...
. @BarackObama said Trump’s presidency has fanned rhetoric “that somehow there& #39;s real Americans and then there are people who, I guess, are fake Americans."

"And somehow, the fake Americans tend to look like me." https://twitter.com/cbcradio/status/1330562175321174017">https://twitter.com/cbcradio/...
. @BarackObama says there were “outsized expectations” of his presidency, but in politics “you are rarely going to get 100% of what you want.”

“Sometimes your supporters feel as if you& #39;re going to wave a wand and it& #39;s all going to get done,” he said.

“And it& #39;s not possible.”
Obama said he misses the team work and "mental exercise of figuring out hard policy problems," but not the pomp of the presidency.

He might have enjoyed a third term if someone said “you can sit in your basement in your sweats” just doing the policy work. https://twitter.com/cbcradio/status/1330662345056677888">https://twitter.com/cbcradio/...
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