Barack Obama calls president Donald Trump ‘Richie Rich’

Former president Barack Obama took a shot at Donald Trump in a new interview by comparing the president to the comic book character Richie Rich — the “poor little rich boy” who’s so wealthy that his middle name is $.

To Obama, the man currently throwing a temper tantrum about the results of the 2020 election isn’t exactly a model of presidential behavior or American manhood.

Calling his successor “Richie Rich” and ridiculing him for refusing to take responsibility for anything, Obama said, “there was a code… the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the ’30s and ’40s and before that. There’s a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn’t complain, that he isn’t a bully — in fact, he defends the vulnerable against bullies.”

Obama said in the interview, “Even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy.”

"I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich — the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure. I’m not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life,” the former president added.

“He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”