Trump's rhetoric is xenophobic, cynical: Obama
US President Barack Obama has described the rhetoric of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as “xenophobic” and “cynical.”
Obama made the comments at a news conference on Wednesday in Ottawa with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Obama said Trump did not meet the criteria of being a "populist," without mentioning the wealthy businessman by name.
“Somebody ... who has never shown any regard for workers, has never fought on behalf of social justice issues or making sure that poor kids are getting a decent shot at life or have health care," does not meet the definition, Obama said.
"They don't suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes. That's not the measure of populism. That's nativism, or xenophobia. Or worse. Or it's just cynicism," he said.
He made a point of saying US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Hillary Clinton's opponent in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, genuinely deserved the title of populist.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has generated huge support from young people and the working class across the United States in his presidential campaign.
Clinton currently has a slender national lead over Trump in the race for the White House, a new poll shows.
In the Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday, the former US secretary of state is leading the New York billionaire by only 2 percentage points, 42 to 40.
Voters are very dissatisfied with the climate surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign, the poll found.
Sixty-one percent say the 2016 race for the White House has “increased the level of hatred and prejudice in the US,” while only 34 percent say it has made “no impact.”
Sixty-seven percent of those who see hatred rising have accused Trump’s campaign and 16 percent put the blame on Clinton’s campaign.
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