U.S. President Barack Obama, who is supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as his successor, believes Christians who have endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump should have seen it coming that the business magnate would eventually let them down.
Obama was referring to the leaked 2005 video showing Trump making lewd comments on women. Trump is seen boasting in the video that he could easily force himself on women and touch their private parts. Members of the faith community, who had long given their unwavering support to Trump, were reportedly broken-hearted over this development.
"I hear people saying, 'I'm a Christian and so I'm all about forgiveness because nobody's perfect,'" Obama said, according to Breitbart News. But even though Obama said he is a Christian himself who believes everybody deserves redemption, he knows where to draw the line.
"If someone does something terrible... I can forgive [them], I suppose, if they're sincere about it, but I don't want them necessarily leading the country," he said.
Obama added that it's impossible for Christians and Republicans to still continue supporting Trump's presidency now after learning about his disrespectful view on women.
"You can't have it both ways here," he said. "You can't repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say, 'But I'm still going to endorse them to be the most powerful person in the planet and to put them in charge.'"
At the same time, Obama poked fun of Trump's supporters who changed their minds about him now that the video has surfaced. "We saw this coming, he's been saying really bad things for a while now. What did you think? He's just going to transform himself?" Obama asked. "I mean, I'm 55, I know it's hard for me to change, I know at 70 it's going to be harder."
Personally, Obama thought that Trump's comments were so unacceptable that he does not even deserved to be hired at a 7/11 convenience store, much more become president of the United States.
"You don't have to be a husband or father to say, 'That's not right.' You just have to be a decent human being," he said.
