Trump is unfit to be President- Obama
Wed Aug 03, 2016 07:53:am World
2K By Buchi Obichie
During a press conference with the Singaporean Prime Minister at the White House on Tuesday, US President, Barack Obama said that Republican Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump, is "unfit to serve as President."
Obama, who made his statement in response to a question from a journalist, added that Trump has shown he is not up to the task, in light of his position on foreign affairs and his comments on military families.
The US President was referring to Trump's attack of an immigrant Pakistani couple- Khizr and Gezala Khan, who had lost their son, Captain Humayun Khan in 2004, while he served as a US soldier in Iraq.
Lashing out at Trump, Obama said: "The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that 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 is woefully unprepared to do this job."
In recent days, Trump has come under fire for controversial comments he made about the family of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004. Khan's father, Khizr, took on the Republican Presidential Nominee in a speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, criticizing him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric and suggesting Trump has "sacrificed nothing and no one."
Mr. Khan denounced Trump for his harsh rhetoric about Muslims, saying under Trump's proposed ban, his son, who was killed in Iraq, would have been barred from entering the USA.
In an interview on Sunday with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Trump responded to Mr. Khan's statement by criticizing his wife, Gezala Khan, for standing silently next to her husband at the convention. He seemed to infer that she was barred from speaking alongside her husband because of her Muslim faith.
Trump later tweeted, "Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!"
Republicans leaders, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have since praised the Khan family and other Gold Star families for their sacrifices, but they have not withdrawn their support for Trump.
Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a leading Republican, has also criticized Trump.
In a statement, McCain said Trump's disparaging of a fallen soldier's parents was against the views of the Republican party.
"He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump's statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates," McCain, a former prisoner of war, said.
But Obama chided the Republicans on Tuesday; stating that their denunciations of Trump "ring hollow" as leaders in the GOP continue to endorse him.
"There has to come a point at which you say, 'Enough,'" Obama said.
"The question that 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?" Obama said.
According to the US President, "This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making."
Obama, who made his statement in response to a question from a journalist, added that Trump has shown he is not up to the task, in light of his position on foreign affairs and his comments on military families.
The US President was referring to Trump's attack of an immigrant Pakistani couple- Khizr and Gezala Khan, who had lost their son, Captain Humayun Khan in 2004, while he served as a US soldier in Iraq.
Lashing out at Trump, Obama said: "The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that 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 is woefully unprepared to do this job."
In recent days, Trump has come under fire for controversial comments he made about the family of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004. Khan's father, Khizr, took on the Republican Presidential Nominee in a speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, criticizing him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric and suggesting Trump has "sacrificed nothing and no one."
Mr. Khan denounced Trump for his harsh rhetoric about Muslims, saying under Trump's proposed ban, his son, who was killed in Iraq, would have been barred from entering the USA.
In an interview on Sunday with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Trump responded to Mr. Khan's statement by criticizing his wife, Gezala Khan, for standing silently next to her husband at the convention. He seemed to infer that she was barred from speaking alongside her husband because of her Muslim faith.
Trump later tweeted, "Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!"
Republicans leaders, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have since praised the Khan family and other Gold Star families for their sacrifices, but they have not withdrawn their support for Trump.
Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a leading Republican, has also criticized Trump.
In a statement, McCain said Trump's disparaging of a fallen soldier's parents was against the views of the Republican party.
"He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump's statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates," McCain, a former prisoner of war, said.
But Obama chided the Republicans on Tuesday; stating that their denunciations of Trump "ring hollow" as leaders in the GOP continue to endorse him.
"There has to come a point at which you say, 'Enough,'" Obama said.
"The question that 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?" Obama said.
According to the US President, "This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making."
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