U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "is unfit" to be president and that "he keeps on proving it" by making remarks such as those about the Muslim parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.
Obama asked rhetorically "why" Republican leaders continue to support the magnate if they feel that many of his comments are "unacceptable" during a joint White House press conference with the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.
"The question I think they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama said, alluding to Republican congressional leaders such as House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer? This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly, where they are distancing themselves from statements he is making," he said.
The president said that there comes a certain point where Republican leaders should say "enough."
In addition, Obama said that he never would have made this argument against the Republican presidential candidates in 2008 and 2012 - John McCain and Mitt Romney, respectively, both of whom he defeated for the presidency.
"I think I was right and Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn't do the job," the president said.
Trump has received harsh criticism from a large portion of the GOP leadership and military families for lambasting the Muslim immigrant parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in combat in Iraq in 2004.
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, took the podium at the Democratic National Convention last week and criticized Trump for his anti-immigrant comments and proposed ban on allowing Muslims to enter this country.
In an interview with ABC, Trump subsequently said that when the father of the soldier said that he (Trump) had not sacrificed anything compared to their son, Mr. Khan was wrong because he had worked "very hard" and created "thousands of jobs" in the United States.
On Monday, in a speech in Atlanta, Obama said that the so-called Gold Star families of U.S. war dead "represent the best" of the United States, an allusion to Trump's criticism of the Khan family.
EFE
2/8/16
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Obama asked rhetorically "why" Republican leaders continue to support the magnate if they feel that many of his comments are "unacceptable" during a joint White House press conference with the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.
"The question I think they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama said, alluding to Republican congressional leaders such as House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer? This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly, where they are distancing themselves from statements he is making," he said.
The president said that there comes a certain point where Republican leaders should say "enough."
In addition, Obama said that he never would have made this argument against the Republican presidential candidates in 2008 and 2012 - John McCain and Mitt Romney, respectively, both of whom he defeated for the presidency.
"I think I was right and Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn't do the job," the president said.
Trump has received harsh criticism from a large portion of the GOP leadership and military families for lambasting the Muslim immigrant parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in combat in Iraq in 2004.
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, took the podium at the Democratic National Convention last week and criticized Trump for his anti-immigrant comments and proposed ban on allowing Muslims to enter this country.
In an interview with ABC, Trump subsequently said that when the father of the soldier said that he (Trump) had not sacrificed anything compared to their son, Mr. Khan was wrong because he had worked "very hard" and created "thousands of jobs" in the United States.
On Monday, in a speech in Atlanta, Obama said that the so-called Gold Star families of U.S. war dead "represent the best" of the United States, an allusion to Trump's criticism of the Khan family.
EFE
2/8/16
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