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Obama: Americans Will Reject Trump’s ‘Wacky’ Ideas
Obama arrived in Laos Tuesday morning (September 6), becoming the first sitting US president to visit landlocked Laos, where the United States waged a “secret war” while fighting in Vietnam, dropping an estimated two million tonnes of bombs on the country.
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“In my own work as an ex-president, I’m hoping to continue working with young people through my presidential center”, Obama said during a Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative town hall in Luang Prabang.
In the United States, Obama says, “sometimes you can feel lazy”. “That’s part of what I’m trying to change”.
Obama was asked about the future of Guantanamo as he conducted a news conference wrapping up his final visit as president to Asia.
Speaking to Asian youth leaders in the mountain town of Luang Prabang, Mr. Obama didn’t mention Mr. Trump by name, but he pushed back against the Republican nominee’s proposals such a building a wall between the US and Mexico, and temporarily banning Muslim immigrants.
Speaking at a Q&A session with young leaders in Laos, Obama said he thinks focus on the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between the USA and 11 other countries will resume after the election.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican Donald Trump confirms his belief that Trump isn’t qualified to be president “every time he speaks”, adding that he was confident Americans would ultimately reject the brash billionaire on Election Day.
The first USA president to set foot in Laos while in office, Obama lamented that many Americans remain unaware of the “painful legacy” left behind. He sought to use his presence and the spotlight that follows him to bring attention to an unfamiliar corner of the world. Thanks to President Barack Obama, not only is the little landlocked country on the world map but so is Inthachith’s sleepy hometown of Luang Prabang.
Obama’s first stop Wednesday was Wat Xieng Thong, a 16th century complex of ornate gold buildings known as the “Temple of the Golden City”.
“It’s gorgeous”, he said as he examined a line of golden statues. Instead, he posed for a group photo before heading to a shop to buy gifts for daughters Sasha and Malia.
The president said ethnic tensions and conflicts with new immigrants surface in the US particularly “when the economy is not doing well, and so people feel stressed”.
Obama paid tribute to survivors maimed by some of the 80 million unexploded bombs America dropped on Laos during the war.
He touted his administration’s move to double spending on ordnance clean-up to roughly 90 million dollars (£67 million) over three years.
“For the last four decades, Laotians have continued to live under the shadow of war”, Obama said as he toured a rehabilitation center in Vientiane.
President Barack Obama says a determination to defeat communism in Southeast Asia may have led USA policymakers to not think carefully enough about the implications of their decisions.
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Some 20,000 people have been killed or wounded since the war ended, Obama said after viewing displays of small rusted grenades and photos of a child missing his foot. He insisted those were “not just statistics”, but reminders of the heavy toll inflicted by war – “some of them unintended”.