UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called Barack Obama the "most anti-British" US president in history.
The Leave campaigner took aim at Mr Obama ahead of the American president's visit to Britain next week, during which he is expected to express his support for the UK staying in the EU.
Addressing this prospect, Mr Farage said: "Mercifully, this American president, who is the most anti-British American president there has ever been, won't be in office for much longer, and I hope will be replaced by somebody rather more sensible when it comes to trading relationships with this country."
Mr Farage was speaking after handing the pro-EU leaflet produced by the Government back to Downing Street in protest at more than £9m of taxpayers' money being spent on the pamphlet.
The UKIP leader, who has backed Republican front runner Donald Trump for the presidency, is the latest Leave campaigner to hit out at Mr Obama.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg warned the president's expected plea for the UK to keep ties with Brussels will backfire, as he accused Mr Obama of appointing IRA sympathisers to his top team.
Mr Rees-Mogg claimed senior figures in Mr Obama’s administration were "hostile to the UK", as he questioned whether the president could be considered a friend to Britain.
The Tory suggested the Brexit side had nothing to fear from an intervention by the US president.
"I don't mind him coming over to say what he wants because I think it helps Brexit," he told House magazine.
"I can't think the British people will want to be told what to do by a rather unsuccessful American president who has had one of the least successful foreign policies in modern history."
lso criticised Mr Obama for picking Joe Biden as his vice president and John Kerry as Secretary of State, as he claimed both men had hostile attitudes towards Britain.
The North East Somerset MP said: "He has appointed as two of his closest subordinates people who have a history of hostility to the United Kingdom.
"In the 1980s Joseph Biden and John Kerry voted against extraditing our immediately after the Brighton bomb. They held it up in a Senate committee.
"They are not friends of the United Kingdom, and I don't think we should forget how disgracefully they behaved then.
"It's as if the UK refused to extradite terrorists to the US after 9/11."
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