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Obama: Trump’s ‘wacky ideas’ should be challenged

“And when you speak, it should actually reflect thought-out policy that you can implement”.

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He added: “There is this process that seems to take place over the course of an election season where somehow behavior that in normal times we would consider completely unacceptable and outrageous becomes normalized”.

You have a force of 30,000 or so people. and I can just see the great, as an example, General George Paton spinning in his grave as Isis we cant beat.

Philippines ambassador to the United States, Marciano Paynor, said the tiff with Obama was part of a learning curve for Duterte, who needed a chance to make the transition from being a city mayor to a head of state. “When you speak, it should actually reflect thought out policy you can implement”, added the USA president.

One of his first events when he returns is a solo campaign stop for Hillary Clinton, the second time he’s hit the campaign trail for the Democratic candidate.

Throughout the campaign, Obama has repeatedly denounced Trump and deemed him “unfit” to serve as commander in chief, arguing that he’s pulling the Republican Party in a risky and unprecedented direction.

“I think I’ve already offered my opinion”, Obama said.

“The most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions to what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas, ” Obama said.

“I’m very happy that it happened”, Philippines’ foreign minister, Perfecto Yasay, said of their short meeting. “I continue to believe Guantanamo is a recruitment tool for terrorism”.

For its part, Beijing voiced objections several times to what it referred to as countries outside the region “interfering” in tussles over the South China Sea – wording that is usually understood to mean the United States and Japan.

In a speech before hundreds of Filipino community members at the grand ballroom of the Shangri-La Jakarta on Friday, the President claimed he never made the statement and blamed the media for twisting his departure speech which led to the cancellation of his meeting with Obama at the Asean summit in Laos.

“I don’t take these comments personally, because it seems as if this is a phrase he’s used repeatedly, directed at the pope and others”, Obama said of the slur. I did say [son of a whore] but not in relation to Obama.

Speaking in Laos at the end of the second of two Asian summits, Obama said the tycoon’s lack of leadership credentials was exposed whenever he spoke and American voters were aware of that.

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Correction: An earlier version of this article and the headline incorrectly quoted a remark President Obama made about Donald Trump.

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