Obama: ‘I Continue To Believe Mr. Trump Will Not Be President’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BARACK OBAMA: "I will leave it to you to speculate on how this whole race is going to go. I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president and the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people. I think they recognize being president is a serious job. It is not hosting a talk show or reality show, it is not promotion, it is not marketing. It is hard.

"A lot of people count on asking it right. It's not a matter of hindering in doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day and sometimes it requires you to make a hard decision even when people don't like it and doing things that are unpopular and standing up to people -- for people who are vulnerable and do not have a powerful clinical can jointly and it requires being able to work with leaders around the world in a way that reflect the importance of the office. And gives people confidence that you know the facts and you know their names and you know where they are on a map, and you know something about their history.

"And you are not just going to play to the crowd back home because they have their own crowds back home and you are trying to solve problems. During primaries, people vent and express themselves and it seems like entertainment and off in times it is reported like entertainment. But as you get closer, reality has a way of intruding.

"These are the folks I have faith in because they ultimately are going to say whoever is standing where I'm standing has the new year codes with them and can order 21-year-olds into a firefight and have to make sure the banking system doesn't collapse and is often responsible for not just the United States of America, but 20 other countries that are having big problems or are falling --"