President Obama Says Donald Trump Is Not Equipped to Be President

[IDemo]

Source: ABC News

President Obama says that Republican front-runner Donald Trump is not equipped to deal with the challenges of being president.

“I think that he is not somebody who even within the Republican Party can be considered as equipped to deal with the problems of this office, but look, we live in a democracy," President Obama said in an interview Monday with WMUR, an ABC affiliate in New Hampshire.

If Trump does become the Republican nominee, Obama said he's confident that the Democratic nominee will win in a general election match-up.

"If in fact the Republicans nominate Mr. Trump, then it’s going to be an interesting fall season," he said. "I’m confident that ultimately the Democrat in that circumstance will win.”

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-donald-trump-equipped-president/story?id=38828409

[braddy]

1. That was the understatement of the year. Trump-"What's a nuclear triad?"

[Rhiannon12866]

13. +1000!

[Geronimoe]

2. Lame Duck

Obama had his 8 years of serving the 1/10th of 1 percent. He should stop trying to influence the election of the next leader.

[brett_jv]

5. Huge Post Fail ...

You lose all the internets.

[TomCADem]

16. Wonder How You Would React to Bernie...

...getting stymied by a Republican Congress and Conservative majority court?

[Abouttime]

3. No

Obama is going to see That Trump cannot be President.
I've said all along Trump will be charged with something long before Hillary.

[frylock]

15. Do tell.

[Skittles]

4. "even within the Republican Party"

[trusty elf]

12. I got a kick out of that too.

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[Skittles]

19. OH NO YOU DIDN'T

[ffr]

6. I'll be working towards a democratic victory no matter what

The more democrats that come out, the more democratic victories and future democratic policies that get passed.

[Wolf Frankula]

7. Trump T. tRump Doesn't Want to Be President.

He wants to be the Big Man. He wants to be CEO, sitting in the Trump Office, in the Trump House, in Trump City, in the District of Trump, in the United Trumps of Trump issuing vague orders and have everybody telling him what a genius he is.

And he's not a conservative, not a liberal, not a moderate, he's a Trumpist. He's all over the board. If he thought there were enough cannibals among the voters, he'd promise them missionaries for dinner.

Wolf

[pandr32]

14. Nailed it!

[PoliticalMalcontent]

8. Barack Obama is correct that Donald Trump is not equipped to be president.

However, there's a huge segment of the population that's anti-whatever-the-president says (out of stupidity or other reasons).

It's going to be an interesting election. I'll be sitting here entirely apathetic to whatever transpires. Both presumptive candidates suck.

[Hekate]

9. Now now, Ted Cruz has promised spanky-spankies for naughty boys who talk like that....

If THAT doesn't give you nightmares there's really nothing to talk about.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

10. Sorry, Hekate. :(

Cruz and Trump are dreadful, but they wouldn't do further perceived damage to something I care about (The democratic party). It's just an opinion. In order to protect myself from feelings of intense depression I've let apathy take hold.

Hoping for the best. Good luck, in any event!

[Hekate]

11. I trust you actually saw that bit where the 10-12 y.o. boy yelled out to Cruz....

It was really ..... weird. Something we can all about in the weeks to come.

[Sunlei]

17. Me too, President O. "I’m confident that ultimately the Democrat in that circumstance will win.”

Republican Party worse and crazier every election. All they "care" about is State level republicans elected. We need to get rid of ALL of them in Congress and Senate.

And get rid of the Local republican gerrymandering and republican local district maps.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. President Obama Says Donald Trump Is Not Equipped to Be President

For many Republicans, this is just another big endorsement for Trump.

Every time a Democrat shouts about how terrible it would be to have Trump as President, he gets a few more votes.

And maybe I'm in the minority, but I have very serious concerns about Trump winning. Not for one reason alone, but for a combination of, yes, the racist, bigoted, "poorly educated", but reality TV watchers, the ones that think he is successful at business so why not?, the independents that are sick of the status quo even if Trump represents an unknown quantity.

Even if it were Bernie running against him, with his double digit lead, the polling would start to even out because of these reasons. But with Hillary now as the projected winner, I see it as a very close race, and one simple bad story here or there could easily tip the scales.