“I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks my opinion is confirmed”, Obama said during a press conference in Laos after nine days overseas.
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“I realize this raises tensions”, Obama said earlier as he met with ASEAN leaders, referring to a recent global arbitration ruling against China on the maritime dispute. “You actually have to know what you’re talking about”.
Throughout the campaign season, Obama has repeatedly denounced Trump and deemed him “unfit” to be president.
Supposed seatmates Obama & Ban both have history with Duterte for their remarks on rampant extra judicial-killings in the Philippines since his reign, to which he responded with insults & threats to leave the United Nations (only a joke, he followed), respectively. Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton and has said he plans to campaign full-force for the Democrat ahead of the November election.
“I expect to work very hard over the next four and a half months”, he said.
Mr Obama said the controversial prison served as a “recruitment tool” for terrorist organisations and was a waste of money.
The White House has proposed transferring detainees both to other countries and to prisons in the United States.
“There is no doubt that because of the politics in Congress right now, it is a tough road to hoe”, Obama conceded Thursday.
President Barack Obama says he’s not ready to concede that the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will remain open when he leaves office.
President Obama says Modis vision of entrepreneurship and innovation would be “very important for a country like India”. On Tuesday Obama cancelled planned talks after the firebrand Duterte called him the ‘son of a bitch’.
The start of the trip was overshadowed by tense moments on the tarmac when Chinese officials clashed with White House aides and appeared to have failed to secure a staircase for Obama’s plane – moments that exploded on social media.
“I don’t take these comments personally because it seems as if this is a phrase he’s used repeatedly including directed at the pope and others”, he said, adding that such choice words were “a habit, a way of speaking for him”.
Correction: An earlier version of this article and the headline incorrectly quoted a remark President Obama made about Donald Trump.
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“Had a great discussion with President of the US (POTUS) on India- USA relations”, Modi tweeted after his meeting with Obama on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit here, their eighth in the last two years.
