US President Barack Obama was highly critical of Donald Trump and his anti-Muslim rhetoric while speaking in a press conference after attending the ASEAN summit in Sunnylands, California.
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Obama continued to lay out the reasons that he believes Donald Trump should not be president.
Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, is the frontrunner in the race to be his party’s choice for the White House.
Trump was in SC when he was asked straight up how he thinks he would fare against the commander in chief.
Obama also told reporters he was having to field concerned calls from other world leaders alarmed at Republican presidential candidates’ positions on issues such as immigration and climate change.
“I continue to believe Trump will not be president”.
“It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show”.
The presidency isn’t “a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day”.
Obama appeared to be alluding to Trump’s apparent lack of knowledge on foreign policy matters as shown by the Republican candidate’s replies to some of the questions on the subject thrown his way.
‘I know Hillary better than I know Bernie, because she’s served in my administration, and she was an outstanding secretary of state, ‘ Obama said. Trump has pledged that here and nationally he will win the votes of minorities who want him to protect their jobs and boost the economy. I’ll do more in one year.
However, he predicted that Trump’s popularity would fade away as the November general election gets nearer.
Trump remains the front-runner in SC, where Republican voters head to the polls on Saturday.
“The thing I can say unequivocally”, he said, “I am not unhappy that I am not on the ballot”.
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Obama reminded Trump that being the United States president also “requires being able to work with leaders around the world in a way that reflects the importance of the office”. “I’m obviously his worst nightmare if I go in, but he can make the statement … people are exhausted and they’re angry and they’re fed up”. “He’s set us back so far, that for him to say that actually is a great compliment”.
