President’s job too ‘serious’ for Donald Trump

Mr Obama contrasted the reality of being president with the rhetoric on the campaign trail, saying doing the job is not like hosting a reality show or a talk show.
The president was speaking after hosting a summit with south-east Asian leaders, and warned that foreign observers are “troubled” by the Republican primaries and debates.
Mr Obama said other countries count on the US to side with science and common sense, and he criticised Republican candidates for harsh talk about Muslims and immigration and for questioning climate change.
He said: “This is not just Mr Trump.”
Mr Obama predicted that US voters will “make a sensible choice in the end”.
Mr Trump hit back, saying Mr Obama’s prediction that he will not be elected to the White House “actually is a great compliment”.
The billionaire developer outlined his complaints about Mr Obama’s presidency, saying: “You look at our budgets, you look at our spending, we can’t beat Isis. Obamacare is terrible ... Our borders are like Swiss cheese.”
Answering questions at a campaign event at a school in Beaufort, South Carolina, he said Mr Obama “has done such a bad job, he’s set us back so far, that for him to say that is a compliment”.
Mr Trump added that Mr Obama was “lucky I didn’t run last time, when Romney ran, because you would have been a one-term president”.
While Obama again criticised the tone and substance of the Republican primary campaign, he described the Democratic contest as a “healthy debate.”
He didn’t say whether he would endorse his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, or her challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, but allowed that he and Clinton may more often agree on policy.
“I know Hillary better than I know Bernie, because she’s served in my administration, and she was an outstanding secretary of state,” Obama said.
“And I suspect that, on certain issues, she agrees with me more than Bernie does.”
Sanders rode support from young and first-time voters to a decisive victory in New Hampshire and a close second place in Iowa, the primary’s first two nominating contests.
Clinton remains the front-runner in national polls, and she is seeking to rebound in the next two nominating contests — the Nevada caucuses on Saturday and the South Carolina primary a week later.
“Ultimately I will probably have an opinion” on the contest, Obama said.
“But for now I think it’s important for Democratic voters to express themselves and for candidates to be run through the paces.”