He said that world leaders are "rattled" by Trump's nomination.
He meant it to scare people about Trump, and it may but probably only with those who are already afraid. But it also helps him with a LOT of Americans who feel we've been far to willing to acquiesce to foreign leaders and interests.
This is the part of Trump that reminds me a lot of Reagan. Reagan was very pro-US, very unilateral in his campaign talk, and he was likewise painted as someone we couldn't trust with the nuclear arsenal, someone who would mess up the workings of foreign diplomacy with his wild west approach.
As it turns out having our enemies think our leader is capable of doing something crazy works really well in negotiations. the world knows Obama wouldn't do a thing to risk a real conflict so China and Russia and NK and the rest have done everything they can to expand their power and position. They'd be worried about Trump, and Trump would back up his words more like Reagan.
Yeah they're rattled. Obama says it like that's a bad thing, for both US foreign policy and Trump's election.
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