"If you'll allow me, I want to say one last thing because it has been a running thread in a bunch questions … this whole issue of populism," Obama said. That's not the measure of populism, that's nativism, or xenophobia, or worse. U.S. President Barack Obama ended the Three Amigos news conference by addressing the Trump in the room. Just after he wound up his answer to the last question of the day, Obama launched into a "rant" against the kind of controversial rhetoric associated with Donald Trump's Republican primary campaign. "Let's be clear, somebody who labels, us versus them, or engages in rhetoric about how we're going to look after ourselves and take it to the other guy, that's not the definition of populism," Obama said.

Source: CBC News June 30, 2016 02:03 UTC