Obama scolds ‘petulant’ Trump but reveals conservative sympathies

In an interview with the Atlantic to mark publication of his memoir A Promised Land, Barack Obama ponders Joe Biden’s chances of working with Republicans in Congress, comes close to admitting to being a never-Trump conservative himself – and compares America under Trump to Central Asia under Genghis Khan. “If we were going to have a rightwing populist in this country,” Obama says, “I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.” Trump…