The Biden campaign believes former President Barack Obama is working behind the scenes to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said.

“Joe Biden is deeply resentful of his treatment. Not only by the Obama staff but also the way he’s been pushed aside for Hillary Clinton… He’s always felt like an outsider, always felt like people looked down on him,” said Scarborough on Biden on Thursday morning’s episode of Morning Joe.

The comments will follow Politico reported that actor George Clooney called Obama shortly before his bombshell speech The New York Times urged President Joe Biden to step aside was published.

The former president notably did not back down from Clooney’s call for his former vice president to drop out of the 2024 race against Donald Trump, Politico reported.

Obama attended the same glitzy Hollywood fundraiser where Clooney wrote that he noticed Biden’s decline.

The former president was one of the first major voices to defend Biden after his disastrous debate performance, which sparked the cascade of calls for his withdrawal.

“I love Joe Biden,” Clooney wrote. “As a senator. As vice president and as president. I see him as a friend and I believe in him. But the only battle he can’t win is the battle against time. None of us can.”

The actor added that Democrats “are not going to win in November with this president.”

The essay came the same day as a searing viral post on X from former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, who wrote that while Biden has been an “extraordinary president,” “in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and little Joe Biden, we’ve seen the most – hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak.”

“Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents of our lifetime, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who let hubris and insecurity destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with that, Lovett added.