President Obama on Thursday rebuked Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE’s criticism of his leadership, expressing confidence Americans would oppose the Republican presidential nominee and his “wacky” ideas on Election Day.

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Obama sought to use his bully pulpit at the conclusion of his final trip to Asia as president to portray Trump as someone who is unfit to occupy the Oval Office.

“Every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed,” Obama said during a news conference in Laos.

The president’s latest criticism of Trump came after the GOP nominee laid into him at a town hall Wednesday night on national security issues.

The Republican nominee said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a better leader than Obama and that U.S. generals have been “reduced to rubble” on the commander in chief’s watch.

Obama said that his stops at international summits in China and Laos showed that governing is “serious business” that requires U.S. presidents to be well-informed, have coherent policy ideas and the temperament to implement them.

“The most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed, or outright wacky, ideas,” Obama said of Trump.

He also urged voters not to give Trump a pass for not having hashed out policy ideas because he is a political neophyte.

“People start thinking that we should be grading on a curve,” he said.

“I have confidence that if, in fact, people just listen to what he has to say or look at his track record — or lack thereof — that they’ll make a good decision.”