Obama On Trump Cheering Brexit: He’s Hardly ‘Legitimate’ Spox For Populism

[kpete]

President Barack Obama warned that politicians like Donald Trump are falsely trying to frame the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union as proof that a wave of anti-immigrant, populist sentiment washing across the U.S. and Europe has triumphed.

"Mr. Trump embodies global elites and has taken full advantage of it his entire life," Obama said in an interview with NPR published Tuesday. "So, he's hardly a spokesperson—a legitimate spokesperson—for a populist surge of working class people on either side of the Atlantic."


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-trump-brexit-populism

[pampango]

1. But he is a 'legitimate' right wing demagogue. Brexit shows they can be very dangerous.

He is a threat to Americans just like Farage and Johnson in the UK.