Obama previews his Trump attack plan
It boils down to this: Trump, in Obama’s mind, is a buffoon-charlatan hybrid who’s only gotten as far as he has because the Republican Party’s a mess and reporters have fallen for the act. The president’s going to keep pointing out that being president isn’t a joke, all while he keeps laughing at Trump and chastising reporters for not asking enough follow-up questions (though of course, Obama took only four questions himself, and no follow-ups as he made this point).
The question that brought Obama the most visible amusement was one about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) distancing himself from his own party’s nominee.
.. “I think you have to ask Speaker Ryan what the implications of his comments are,” Obama said, his face breaking out in a smirk born of seven years of being told his problems with the Republican Party stem from what he’s done wrong, and the last six months watching the evidence mount in increasingly fireball-in-the-Metro type ways that there’s something wrong with the Republican Party.