“There has to be a point at which you say, “Enough”, Obama said.
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Former Republican candidate John McCain became the latest senior Republican to criticise Mr Trump for his attack on the parents of US Army Capt Humayun Khan, who was killed by a vehicle bomb in 2004 in Iraq, at the age of 27.
Trump said the the Khans had “viciously attacked” him at the Democratic convention and then complained that they continued to assail his candidacy in a series of television interviews in recent days.
The Khans also appeared at the convention, with Khizr Khan telling the story of his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after his death in 2004.
Obama then pivoted to question why Republican leaders, who have denounced Trump’s response to a handful of issues, have still endorsed him.
According to Gallup, Obama has a 53 per cent approval rating – exactly what Ronald Reagan had at this stage in his presidency, lower than Dwight Eisenhower or Bill Clinton, but 20 percentage points higher than George W. Bush and 21 percentage points higher than the current favourability rating of Trump. “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe, this is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making”.
While Obama said that he has disagreed with former Republican presidents on policy issues, but he “didn’t have a doubt that they could function as president”.
Trump responded by implying Ghazala Khan’s religion preventing her from speaking at the convention, though she later said talking publicly about her late son was still too hard.
One of the strongest rebukes against Trump came from Republican senator John McCain of Arizona, who was the party’s nominee in the 2008 election.
Humayun’s father, Khizr Khan, spoke on the closing night of the DNC, stealing the show even from nominee Hillary Clinton with his emotional takedown of Donald Trump.
Trump responded with a statement that summarized the points he makes in his stump speeches: “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East. released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another. produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression [and] shipped millions of our best jobs overseas”. The statements were made at a joint press conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, at the White House. He may have even meant to help Democrats make the down-ballot argument that a party that makes a dude like Trump its maximum leader has no business runninganything. “I hear more and more that the election on November 8, can you believe, we’re nearly there”.
He also challenged more Republicans who were repeatedly embarrassed by Trump to speak out.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment about Trump’s remarks.
President Barack Obama delivered some of the harshest criticism of Donald Trump yet on Tuesday.
“The alternative is the entire party and the Republican party effectively endorses and validates the positions being articulated by Mr Trump”. The fact that they haven’t done so, Obama said on Tuesday, makes their denunciations “ring hollow”.
However, none of the Republican lawmakers pulled back their support of Trump’s White House campaign.
Obama has actively worked to change the nations’ approach to clemency and to eliminate outdated and unnecessarily severe laws that are still on the books.
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“I never expect to agree (completely) with whoever is president, but at a minimum the president needs to consistently display those qualities I have preached to my two children: kindness, honesty, dignity, compassion and respect”.
