Obama says Donald Trump unlikely to be President

US president Barack Obama said Donald Trump was “the classic reality TV character” who had tapped into something in the Republican Party but was unlikely to succeed him as president.

“He is a great publicity-seeker, and at a time when the Republican Party hasn’t really figured out what it’s for as opposed to what it’s against,” Obama said of Trump during an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes shiow.

Opinion polls put Trump at the front of a crowded Republican field seeking nomination for the November 2016 presidential election.