The aides would not say how much Mr. Obama will be paid per speech,<br />but former President Bill Clinton averaged more than $200,000 per speech between 2001 and 2015; former President George W. Bush is reportedly paid $100,000 to $175,000 for each appearance.<br />That’s not the way he saw his post-presidency.”<br />Mr. Glassman said that Mr. Bush’s keep-quiet approach toward Mr. Obama was shaped by what he saw as<br />unfair criticism by former President Jimmy Carter of his father, the elder President George Bush.<br />After spending weeks in French Polynesia — including time on the yacht of the movie mogul David Geffen along with Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks<br />and Oprah Winfrey — Mr. Obama will return to Chicago on Monday for his first public event as a former president.<br />Mr. Obama and a small cadre of former White House aides in his Washington office know<br />that anything he says in public, no matter how veiled, will be interpreted as criticism of Mr. Trump.<br />“I would try to get him to do things like talk about immigration policy and say the things he said as president,” Mr. Glassman said of Mr. Bush.<br />Even as he witnesses President Trump’s relentless and chaotic assault on his legacy, Mr. Obama<br />remains stubbornly committed to the idea that there is only one president at a time.<br />Aides have rejected the idea that Mr. Obama should actively wage a public feud against Mr. Trump, with whom he has not spoken since the inauguration.
