President Obama admitted his support for Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee during an interview with “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that aired Thursday. But the admission was only in a rhetorical sense because of how some Democrats think Trump’s ascension will destroy the GOP.
Fallon asked Obama if he thought Republicans were happy with their choice.
“Um, we are. But I don’t know whether, I don’t know,” Obama said, quickly backpedaling the comment.
“Actually you know what. That — that was too easy. The truth is I actually I am worried about the Republican Party and I know that sounds, you know — you know what it sounds like,” Obama admitted. “But democracy works, this country works when you have two parties that are serious and trying to solve problems and they’ve got philosophical differences and they have got fierce debates and they argue and they contest elections, but at the end of the day what you want is a healthy two-party system and you know you want the Republican nominee to be somebody who could do the job if they win.”
The president may have corrected himself after realizing his admission that he was rooting for the Republicans to fail was not in the best interest of America as a whole.
But he added that he has not enjoyed the portion of the past seven years because of what he has witnessed within the GOP.
“What’s happened in that party culminating in this current nomination, I think, is not actually good for the country as a whole. It’s not something the Democrats should wish for and my hope is maybe once you get through this cycle there’s some corrective action and they get back to being a center-right party and Democratic Party being a center-left party and we start figuring out how to work together,” Obama said.
