Thursday, March 28, 2024

Pres. Obama Gives Ryan Seacrest His Take on First Presidential Debate (Listen)

U.S President Barack Obama speaks at the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 24, 2016 in Washington, DC.
U.S President Barack Obama speaks at the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 24, 2016 in Washington, DC.

*President Obama weighed in on last night’s first presidential debate, saying “anybody who was watching…I think got a sense that you got really sharply contrasting visions about where we should take the country.”

Calling into the radio show “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” Tuesday morning, POTUS said he watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off from the White House Treaty Room (reluctantly giving up “Monday Night Football”).

“I’m admittedly biased. I have worked with Hillary. I know her. She is well-prepared. She’s got the right temperament for the job, she’s well-respected around the world, she’s serious, she does her homework,” Obama said. “The other guy doesn’t have the preparation, the temperament or the core values of inclusion” to be president of the United States.

Obama called this year’s contest “especially big” because of the “big differences between the two candidates.” He expressed deep concerns about Trump’s readiness for the job, telling Seacrest the GOP nominee falls short on two issues he’s concerned about most for his daughters’ generation.

“I get worried when I hear somebody like Donald Trump start saying, ‘Well, I don’t necessarily know whether Japan or Korea should be protected by us,'” Obama said. “Maybe they should get their own nuclear weapons. That shows somebody who doesn’t pay attention to these issues, and you don’t necessarily want close to the nuclear button.”

He hit Trump for tweeting that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China, a line that Clinton brought up Monday night.

“When you hear somebody like Trump say he thinks this is a plot by the Chinese, that this is a fraud and a hoax, when 99% of scientists are saying you’ve got to do something about it, that worries me,” he said.

Seacrest ended the interview by testing the president on the slang “fam,” “slay” and “curve.” He knew the meaning of all three (“I think we’ve all been curved at some point,” he added.)  Then, to really show off, Obama told Ryan: “Those questions were lit.”

Listen to the entire interview below:

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