The Democratic president noted that leading Republicans, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and one-time Republican presidential nominee John McCain, the United States senator from Arizona, had criticized Trump for his remarks but have stood by their endorsements of him. Obama said during a White House news conference with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.
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Earlier Tuesday, Trump said that Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have “single-handedly destabilized the Middle East” while putting the “country at risk” with Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“He keeps proving it”, Obama added.
The Democratic president noted that leading Republicans, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and one-time Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, had criticised Trump for his remarks but have stood by their endorsements of him.
Obama remarked that Republican denunciations of Trump “ring hollow” as they continue to endorse Trump. Obama asked. He went on top day that Trump, as the Republican “standard bearer”, does not just make the “episodic gaffe”.
Speaking to Fox, Mr Trump said Mr Obama had been “the worst president, maybe, in the history of our country”. Obama insisted that a seasonal episode from Trump would have been understandable, however on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, Trump acts out causing the party to distance themselves from him.
After Khizir Khan, who lost his son in a suicide bombing in Iraq, declared at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that Trump had “sacrificed nothing”, the Republican nominee claimed he’d been “viciously attacked” and questioned why Khan’s wife, Ghazala, did not also speak.
During the speech, Khizr Khan said Trump has sacrificed “nothing” and “no one”, and that the billionaire real estate mogul did not understand that people of many backgrounds had given their life in service of their nation. “There have been Republicans with whom whom I disagreed but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as President…”
Despite policy differences with previous Republican presidential candidates, such as McCain and former MA governor Mitt Romney, Obama said he never questioned their ability to do the job.
“There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough, ‘” he said.
Indeed, several prominent Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Sen.
Mr Trump has also been condemned for backing the Russian annexation of Crimea. “The alternative is that the entire party, the Republican Party effectively endorses and validates the positions that are being articulated by Mr. Trump”.
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The New York MP cited Trump’s attacks on the Khan family, calling the candidate “deeply flawed in endless ways”, “unrepentant” and “self-involved”.
