Young Barack Obama Once Praised Trump As The American Dream...We All Make Mistakes

We have all said things that we wish we could take back and forget. Unfortunately for President Obama, someone kept his receipts.

In a new biography called "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," author David J. Garrow included an excerpt from a previously unpublished law paper titled "Race and Rights Rhetoric" that Barack Obama co-wrote with his friend Robert Fisher in 1991 while at Harvard, The Hill reports. The quote that has come back to haunt the former President is one that appears to praise Donald Trump as the American dream.

"[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility," Obama and Fisher wrote, "values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will."

Barry. Bruh.

To be fair, the public opinion of Donald Trump in the 1991 was very different than it is now. Before his political aspirations and the invention of Twitter, he was a billionaire whose name was on everything, he had a bestselling book about making deals and accumulating wealth, he had been in two episodes of The Jeffersons, and he was a few months away from a seven-word cameo in Home Alone 2.

If you had told young Obama that he would one day become president, but that the same rich guy everyone knew would become a reality television personality, Twitter troll, and then would also become president, he would probably have dropped out of law school to start working on a time machine to prevent that future from ever coming true.

Moral of the story: things change and people do too.