President Barack Obama on Monday said that he would feel “deeply disturbed” if Donald Trump is sworn in as his successor and reiterated that the billionaire is not somebody who is fit to be president in any circumstances.
“Trump is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country,” Obama said. “I say that mindful of fact there are disagreements between Republicans and Democrats, but I’ve said this in speeches before. When I ran against John McCain, I thought he had wrong ideas, and I believed I will be a better president,” he noted.
“But I didn’t think that if John McCain was president that basic standards of decency, basic constitutional norms would be out the window. When I ran against Mitt Romney, I disagreed with him on his economic policies, but he released his tax returns, I wasn’t worried about what kinds of business interests that he might have,” he added.