Obama: Donald Trump ‘unfit’ to president

“The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president, I said it last week and he keeps on proving it”, Mr Obama said.

The first questioner asked Obama-given Trump’s ongoing feud with a gold star family and his recent remarks that he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea as legitimate-did he think that the Republican nominee was unfit for the presidency?

Obama says “this is different than just having policy differences” with republicans torn between party and country in supporting Donald trump.

“Our nation has been humiliated overseas and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores”, he said.

Trump’s son, Eric Trump, told CBS News on Tuesday that his father’s comments toward the Khans have been “blown hugely out of proportion”. “And the alternative is that the entire Republican party effectively endorses and validates the positions taken by Mr. Trump”, Obama said.

The U.S. president said they shared a “common vision of a peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific and a more secure world”. “There has to be a point at which you say, ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party'”.

Trump questioned whether Ghazala Khan did not speak at the convention because she was prevented from doing so by her religion and he characterized Khizr Khan’s criticism of him as “vicious”.

A few Republican officeholders have said they won’t back Trump, including Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse.

Trump responded with an e-mailed statement on Obama’s “failed leadership”, saying Obama and Clinton “destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi”.

Obama said he never had reason to question the qualifications or fitness for office of the Republicans who ran against him, McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Trump’s presidential campaign has appealed to Capitol Hill for support amid the controversy, including circulating talking points for lawmakers to use, but has found little support. “I don’t think that it wildly swings what is a tough, hard relationship that we have with Russian Federation right now”. But federal officials said there is strong evidence indicating the breach was perpetrated by hackers working on behalf of Russian Federation intelligence. John McCain of Arizona leading the charge.

Asked how the president plans on passing TPP under strong opposition by the presidential candidates, Obama said, “Well right now I’m president and I’m for it”.

Obama has increasingly voiced criticism of Trump, both directly and by implication.

His sentiments are shared by Obama, who told Singapore’s The Straits Times in an interview published Monday that the US can’t “turn inward” and embrace protectionism because of economic anxieties that have been drawn out by the presidential election.