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Obama’s memoir, which was only released last week, is flying off the shelves.
A Promised Land has become the fastest-selling presidential memoir ever, with more than 1.7 million books sold in the first week alone.
In the book, which is the first of two planned volumes, the former president discusses his family life, his journey to the White House and the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
As is commonplace with memoirs, Obama writes in the first person about his life and experiences.
But that doesn’t sit right with one prominent Trump supporter.
Dinesh D’Souza, a right-wing commentator and pal of Trump, has called Obama out for daring to write a memoir about himself.
D’Souza tweeted: “No way I can do this, but someone should count the number of times Obama uses the term ‘I’ in his ridiculous 700-page book.”
The tweet continues: “We might have here the greatest egotist of all time — at least outside of lunatic asylums.”
D’Souza’s attempt to ridicule the former president for doing a totally normal thing didn’t exactly go to plan.
People mocked him for not understanding what a memoir is.
One person responded: “What kind of monster writes their memoir in the 1st person?”
Another wrote: “Very annoying when someone writes a book about themselves and then just talks about themselves for it.”
Someone else joked: “Obviously Dinesh is having a hard time understanding how a memoir/ autobiography works.”
Well, that backfired spectacularly.
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