After offering the country peak Obama with a fiery speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, the outgoing president came out swinging again Tuesday, telling the press Donald Trump is "woefully unprepared" to be America's next commander in chief, as the New York Times reports.
"I think that the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it," Obama said at a White House press conference, apparently in response to Trump's ugly, ongoing feud with Muslim parents of slain American soldier Humayun Khan.
Obama also dropped a pretty heavy dose of common sense on Republicans who have criticized Trump but continue to support him.
"If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama asked reporters. "This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily. There has to be a point at which you say, this is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party. The fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow."
Obama's words seemed to have rung true for at least one prominent Republican: Congressman Richard Hannah of New York announced Monday that he will not be supporting Trump in November and instead plans to vote for Hillary Clinton.
On Tuesday afternoon, perhaps by way of retaliation, Trump issued another broadside on Facebook that began, "Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi."
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