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President Barack Obama joined Jimmy Fallon on his show and expressed his concerns over the Republican Party with the rise of Donald Trump. Fallon asked Obama whether he believed Republicans were happy with the GOP presumptive nominee and Obama replied, “We are.”
“I don’t know how they’re feeling, but the truth is I am actually worried about the Republican Party,” Obama said.
“This country works when you have two parties that are serious and trying to solve problems,” he continued. “And they’ve got philosophical differences and they have 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.”
Obama added that “you want the Republican nominee to be somebody who could do the job if they win. And you want folks who understand the issues.”
“I haven’t been enjoying over the last seven years, watching some of the things that have happened in the Republican Party because there’s some good people in the Republican Party,” he said.
“But 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 Democrats should wish for,” he continued. “And my hope is, is that maybe once you get through this cycle, there’s some corrective action and they get back to being a center right party.”
He said that the “main role I’m going to be playing in this process is to remind the American people that this is a serious job. You know, this is not reality TV.”
According to Variety, Obama said that he thinks that Bernie Sanders has “made Hillary a better candidate.”
“It was a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to have, a contested primary,” he said. “I thought that Bernie Sanders brought enormous energy and new ideas. And he pushed the party and challenged them.”
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