Clinton, who reached enough delegate this Tuesday, is the first women presidential candidate of a major USA party.
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In videotaped remarks released by the Clinton campaign, Obama said he knows how hard it is to be president, and that is why he knows his former secretary of state is capable of doing the job.
Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, spoke outside the White House after a meeting with President Barack Obama, as Democrats pressured him to end his campaign and support Clinton after a hard-fought primary race.
The move came after the USA president met with her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Her Democratic rival is still in the race for next week’s final nominating contest but says he will work with the former Secretary of State to defeat Trump.
Mrs Clinton welcomed the endorsement, saying it “meant the world” to her and she was “thrilled”.
“In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”, he said.
Warren, a Democrat who has been trading jabs with Trump for days, borrowed Clinton’s insult in a Thursday morning Tweet to the presumptive Republican nominee.
Congressman Ami Bera, the only Indian-American in the current Congress, said Clinton would be the next U.S. president. “He wants four more years of Obama-but nobody else does”, Trump tweeted. “She’s got the courage, the compassion and the heart to get the job done”.
Hillary Clinton hit another campaign milestone: Most retweeted tweet.
Barack Obama is now in the game.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The billionaire real estate mogul wrote: “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary”.
However, Warren is scheduled to come off the sidelines and formally endorse Clinton.
Despite the urgency to unite the party, the White House said on Thursday it was up to Sanders to make the decision as to when and how he ends the campaign.
Republicans including Trump have savaged her for her judgment, saying she put USA national security at risk, and have accused her of deleting key emails that she did not want Americans to see.
“I thought that Bernie Sanders brought enormous energy and new ideas”, Obama said on Wednesday.
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He barely mentioned next Tuesday’s primary election in the city, the last on the Democratic primary calendar.
