President Barack Obama has accused Republican Donald Trump, who is running to succeed him, of “exploiting” fear and anger among working class voters to boost his campaign.
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Obama said that criticism of his strategy to combat the Islamic State group was warranted and believes that the administrations’ failure to keep the public informed about his strategy for countering the IS Group has contributed to fears among USA citizens that not enough is being done to protect them from a terrorist attack.
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In an interview with NPR, the president said that structural changes to the American economy through technology and the 2008 financial crisis have meant stagnant wages, especially for blue-collar workers. Some of it justified but just misdirected. “And so I think that the American people absorb that, understandably are of concern”. “That’s what he’s exploiting during the course of his campaign”.
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Obama said that some of his challenges, such as fielding doubts over whether or not he was born in the USA or is a closeted Muslim, “are certain circumstances around being the first African-American president that might not have confronted a previous president”.
“If what you are suggesting is that, you know, somebody questioning whether I was born in the United States or not, how do I think about that”, Obama said, “I would say that that’s something that is actively promoted and may gain traction because of my unique demographic”.
Despite Obama’s criticism of Trump, the real estate mogul still leads in all the recent polls, according to Real Clear Politics’ polling data.
Obama’s interview with NPR came as the president has struggled to calm public fears over terrorism in the wake of attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
“What is the public missing about your strategy?” “You’re talking about making up tapes and videos which don’t exist”.
Obama decided not to comment on those two specific protest efforts, but instead made a decision to speak about campus protests more generally.
“We haven’t on a regular basis, I think, described all the work that we’ve been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL”, he said.
In the interview, Obama urged keeping the situation in perspective, saying the Islamic State “is not an organization that can destroy the United States”. At Yale University, faculty members Erika and Nicholas Christakis have both stopped teaching after they were targeted by protesters for an email Erika sent urging people not to get upset about Halloween costumes. “And so I understand why people are anxious”, he said.
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Obama said that the coverage of ISIS has been “saturated” as the media chases eyeballs and clicks. “But at no point was there a sense that in fact it could do catastrophic damage to us”.
