ISE, Japan — Donald Trump‘s rise to the likely Republican nomination for president has “surprised” and “rattled” some world leaders, President Barack Obama said Thursday at a press conference around the G7 meeting in Japan.
“Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe,” Obama said.
President Obama is attending the G& Summit. The annual summit brings together the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. It is taking place amid extraordinarily tight security around the remote summit venue, with uniformed police standing guard at close intervals on both sides of roads and randomly in forests, rice fields, soccer fields and other locations.
Information from the Associated Press is used in this story.
