Obama blasts Trump’s ‘demeaning’ comments on women

US President Barack Obama on Sunday condemned the Republican vying to replace him in the White House for his “demeaning,” lewd boasts about women that have thrown his campaign into disarray.

“Are we really going to risk giving Donald Trump the power to roll back all the progress we’ve made?” Obama asked during a campaign event for Democrats in his adopted home state of Illinois.

He suggested the Republican candidate’s denigration of veterans, people with disabilities, minorities, immigrants, and others, during the 2016 campaign stemmed from insecurity.

“It tells you that he’s insecure enough that he puffs himself up by putting other people down,” Obama said, adding that “the unbelievable rhetoric” from Trump has been “disturbing.”

“I don’t need to repeat it,” he told his supporters. “There are children in the room.”

Obama said Trump’s rhetoric, including sexually aggressive banter he made in recordings that surfaced over the weekend, also “tells you that he doesn’t care much about the basic values we try to impart to our kids. It tells you he’d be careless with the stability and the respect that a real vibrant democracy requires.”

The president’s comments came hours before a critical presidential debate for Trump, and with a fast-growing group of Republican leaders calling on the New York businessman to abandon his troubled presidential bid.

The latest firestorm for his campaign was sparked by a 2005 video obtained and released Friday by The Washington Post and NBC News. In the video, Trump, who was married to his current wife at the time, is heard describing attempts to have sex with a married woman. He also brags about women letting him kiss them and grab their genitals because he is famous.

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The release of the recording and ensuing backlash almost completely overshadowed the release of hacked emails from inside the Clinton campaign that revealed the contents of some of her previously secret paid speeches to Wall Street. The Democratic nominee told bankers behind closed doors that she favored “open trade and open borders.” Such comments were distinctively at odds with her tough talk about trade and Wall Street during the primary campaign.