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Eugene

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Wed Jun 29, 2016, 09:11 PM Jun 2016

President Obama Unleashes Epic Anti-Donald Trump 'Rant' About Populism

Source: ABC News

President Obama Unleashes Epic Anti-Donald Trump 'Rant' About Populism

By JOHN PARKINSON and ARLETTE SAENZ Jun 29, 2016, 6:08 PM ET

On a self-described "rant" about populism, but without mentioning Donald Trump by name, President Obama today submitted that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s rhetoric is not populism, but actually "nativism or xenophobia."

“They don’t suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes," the president said, taking a moment of liberty at the North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa, Canada, after several questions at a news conference explored Trump’s campaign rhetoric.

"That’s not the measure of populism. That’s nativism. Or xenophobia or worse. Or it’s just cynicism."

"I would just advise everybody to be careful about suddenly attributing to whoever pops up at a time of economic anxiety the label that they’re populist,” the president implored at the National Gallery of Canada. “Where have they been? Have they been on the front lines working on behalf of working people?”

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