In the “feud” between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, it’s the current president who broke “tradition” with the “personal” attacks. That’s the selective memory pushed by the journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday. Guest co-host Anthony Mason insisted that the President’s tweets on Saturday “broke an uneasy truce between the two men since the White House transition.”

Reporter Chip Reid decided that it was Trump who “has taken the gloves off.” USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page somehow justified, “Even President Obama, when he took over, was critical of President George W. Bush. But he never criticized him personally in the way President Trump has now criticized President Obama.”

Reid summarized that “Mr. Trump has defied a presidential tradition of not personally attacking your predecessor.”

Yet, in 2008, then-candidate Obama assailed George W. Bush, who would become his predecessor, over Hurricane Katrina:

We can talk about levies that couldn’t hold, about a FEMA that seem not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from a window on an airplane instead of down here on the ground, trying to provide comfort and aid.

This was the headline for an October 14, 2016 Politico item on Obama slamming his eventual successor: “Obama unleashes blistering attack on Trump. The president casts the GOP nominee as a hypocrite and a phony and urges America to vote.”

Obama sneered:

“This is a guy who spent all his time trying to convince everyone he was a global elite. … All he had time for is celebrities. And now suddenly he’s acting like a populist.... Come on, man.”

In September of 2016, Obama said it would be a “personal insult” to his legacy if black voters didn’t back Hillary Clinton.

Way back in 2011, Obama mocked Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner:

We all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example — no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ — at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled.

These don't count as personal insults?

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