US President Barack Obama has mocked the Republican leadership for being “shocked” over the campaign narrative of its frontrunner Donald Trump as he blamed it for creating the environment that led to the controversial leader’s rise.
“We’ve got a debate inside the other party that is fantasy and schoolyard taunts and selling stuff like it’s the Home Shopping Network,” Obama said during a public meeting in Austin, Texas referring to the election campaign and rhetoric of the Republican presidential candidates.
“Then you’ve got the Republican establishment — they’re very exercised: We’re shocked that somebody would be saying these things. We’re shocked that somebody is fanning anti- immigrant sentiment or anti-Muslim sentiment.”