Trump ‘fired’ look-alike of Obama, says former aide

DONALD TRUMP so hated Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike to sit in his office so he could “fire” him, according to claims in a new book from the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

In Disloyal, out tomorrow, Mr Cohen alleges that his old boss was “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man”.

The lawyer, 54, is under house arrest, having been freed from prison early during the coronavirus pandemic. He was sentenced to three years in December 2018 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations – crimes he alleged were a result of covering up for Mr Trump’s “dirty deeds”.

In a photo included in the book, Mr Trump is seen seated at his desk across from the alleged “Faux-bama”, wearing a suit with an American flag pin.

Mr Cohen writes that Mr Trump “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him”.

He claims the New York billionaire was obsessed with Mr Obama, who he claimed was only accepted into Columbia University and Harvard Law School because of affirmative action, and made racist comments about black leaders.

“Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a ----hole. They are all complete ------- toilets,” he allegedly said during one rant about the former president.

The one world leader Mr Trump admired was Vladimir Putin, writes Cohen.

The White House says the book is fiction, written by a convicted felon.