Source: USA Today
A top adviser to President Obama said today that Donald Trump's prospective presidential bid is a "sideshow," particularly his suggestions that Obama was not born in the United States.
"There may be a small part of the country that believes these things, but mainstream Americans think it's a sideshow," said White House senior adviser David Plouffe, speaking on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour.
Instead, Plouffe said, Americans want leaders to "focus squarely on the issues right in front of us: how we're going to keep growing the economy ... how we keep our people safe, how do we make sure we're going to win the future by focusing on things like education and innovation? So that's what they want us to focus on."
"I think I saw Donald Trump kind of rising in some polls and given his behavior and spectacle the last couple of weeks, I hope he keeps on rising because there is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job," Plouffe said.
