Donald Trump is ‘uniquely unqualified’, says Barack Obama Barack Obama has told American voters ‘the future of democracy’ rests on their decision between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton […]

Barack Obama has told American voters ‘the future of democracy’ rests on their decision between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tomorrow.

Speaking to a crowd of 9,000 people in Michigan, Obama said Donald Trump is ‘uniquely unqualified’ to succeed him as President on the final day of campaigning in the US election.

Speaking at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, near Detroit, President Obama told his audience – many of whom were first-time voters at college – that ‘the future of our democracy depends on what you do when you step into the voting booth tomorrow’.

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President Obama presented a contrast between ‘The Donald’ and Hillary Clinton as an experienced and trustworthy candidate.

Temperamentally unfit

“The choice we face couldn’t be clearer,” he said.

“Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president.

“Over the weekend his campaign took away his Twitter account. If your closest advisors don’t trust you to Tweet, can you trust him with the nuclear codes?

“Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to hold this job. The good news Michigan is you are uniquely qualified to make sure he doesn’t get the job.”

He said in contrast Hillary Clinton is ‘probably the most qualified person ever to run for this office’.

After the noise

Obama added: “It isn’t that often in your life where you know you can make a difference, to move history in a different arc. This is one of those moments.

“After all the noise, the negative ads, it now just comes down to you.”

Clinton supporter Marcia Grooms, aged 84, said the speech had been ‘inspiring’.

She said of Trump: “I’m 84 and I have never heard a man talk about a woman trying to president or talk about a woman the way he did. He has told stories about her and won’t accept the fact she is better qualified to be president.”