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Nope, not close at all. Obama praised McCain for his service as he ran against him, Trump called Clinton Crooked Hillary and of course even made fun of John McCain because he wasn't willing to kiss the ring early enough. Obama made attempts to reach across the aisle in rhetoric and even in policy with Obamacare. Trump has done no such thing, he's only attempted to put fuel on the fire.I'd say their close. Obama was just more charismatic.
Obama said some polarizing things about Trayvon and cops and whatnot to be sure and later in his presidency he did revert to a more partisan stance. But as I said earlier, at least he conformed to the norms that require a POTUS to act bipartisan every once in a while. Trump and his supporters seem to pride themselves on the fact that he openly rejects this for shameless partisanship, hence their go to justification that they voted for him to "trigger the libs" and for "liberal tears".
I understand that the conservative instinct when any criticism is leveled at Trump is to revert to "B-But Obama!" but its just not true that he was as openly partisan.