On Monday, former President Barack Obama met with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, just hours after reports surfaced about a brewing rivalry between himself and President Joe Biden.
The meeting was Obama’s first in-person meeting with Sunak since he became prime minister. He was spotted as he was leaving Sunak’s residence on Monday afternoon, saying it was a “courtesy visit” made while conducting other business in London.
The meeting comes less than a day after a report, which alleges a decade-long rivalry between Obama, Biden, and their respective aides.
Biden aides have complained that “Obama and his team did not fully appreciate Biden’s experience with foreign policy, Congress and grip-and-grin politicking — and were disrespectful,” Axios reported this weekend.
“The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president,” one former Biden aide told Axios. “They didn’t think he’d be organized enough to execute.”
“We do have too many Obama people who don’t care about Joe Biden. It’s about them,” a former White House official said.
“When people say, ‘This is what worked for Obama,’ their first response is often, ‘We’re not Obama,’” said one “senior Democrat” a “senior Democrat” reportedly said, referring to Biden’s staff.
Meanwhile, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates denied that the relationship between the two presidents was at all frayed, claiming that Biden has not taken potshots at Obama in private.
“We recognize that the actual level of drama in this White House is insufficient to meet some reporting quotas, but President Biden does not make such comments in private,” Bates said. “As President Biden has said, President Obama is family to him.”
Bates described Obama and Biden as having a close “personal bond” and agreeing “overwhelmingly on the issues facing the country, including building an economy that works from the bottom-up and middle-out, protecting our critical freedoms, and opposing attacks on our democracy.”
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