Why President Obama Says Donald Trump Is ‘Woefully Unprepared’
President Barack Obama, during a joint appearance with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to discuss foreign trade and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, took the opportunity to score points for his team, the Democratic Party.
He criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for an ongoing feud he has had with the Gold Star parents of Army Lt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq. But he took his criticism a step farther, asking Republicans how they could continue to support Trump as their presidential nominee.
“The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that had made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn’t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia means that he’s woefully unprepared to do this job,” he said. “The question I think that 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?
“What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer? There has to come a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world.”
As usual, Trump didn’t take the words sitting down. His campaign released the following statement from the candidate:
“Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. Then they allowed dozens of veterans to die waiting for medical care that never came.
“Hillary Clinton put the whole country at risk with her illegal email server, deleted evidence of her crime, and lied repeatedly about her conduct which endangered us all. They released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another—like Sarah Root and Kate Steinle—and have repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism.
“They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression. They have shipped millions of our best jobs overseas to appease their global special interests. They have betrayed our security and our workers, and Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office.
“She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives. Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now.”
