Donald Trump, Barack Obama Relationship: 'He Likes Me' Claims President In TV Interview

Some might argue President Donald Trump's political career truly began when he started an over five-year crusade to prove former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Despite these controversial allegations on the then-sitting president, Trump recently claimed in a television interview that he has a good relationship with his predecessor.

"It’s a very strange phenomenon. We get along," Trump told Bill O’Reilly in an interview with Fox News that aired Monday. "I don’t know if he’ll admit this, but he likes me. I like him."

“How do you know he likes you?” O’Reilly asked.

“Because I can feel it,” Trump replied. “That’s what I do in life. It’s called, like, ‘I understand.’”

He also claimed Obama campaigned harder for Hillary Clinton than Clinton did for herself. He argued that it was part of the entire political game and that the sharp words they had both thrown at each other weren't taken seriously.

“He was vicious during the campaign toward me, and I was vicious toward him. We said horrible things about each other, and then we hop into the car and we drive down Pennsylvania Avenue together, we don’t even talk about it,” he said. “Politics is amazing.”

Last month, Buzzfeed released a 35-page unverified document written by a retired British MI6 spy that said Trump “hated” Obama so much he hired a group of prostitutes to urinate on the Moscow hotel bed where the president and first lady Michelle Obama once slept.

The memo, published in full by Buzzfeed, read: "According to Source D, where s/he had been present, Trump’s (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the Presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him.”

“FAKE NEWS — A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” Trump posted on Twitter in early January.