![From Canada Obama Calls Trump A Demagogue [VIDEO]](https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=960,height=411,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Barack-Obama-Screen-Grab-CNN-6-29-2016-e1467231193874.jpg "From Canada Obama Calls Trump A Demagogue [VIDEO]")
During a joint press conference with the the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada Wednesday, President Barack Obama blasted Donald Trump arguing that he is a demagogue.
Obama said, “We’ve had times throughout our history where anti-immigration sentiment is exploited by demagogues. It was directed at the Irish, at Poles, and Italians, and you can go back and read what was said about those groups and it’s identical to what they’re now saying about Mexicans, or Guatemalans, El Salvadorians or Muslims or Asians. Same stuff.”
“‘They’re different, they’re not going to fit, they won’t assimilate, they bring crime,’ same arguments,” Obama said.
“You go back to the 1800s, the language is identical. But guess what? They kept coming and they kept coming because America offered [the] possibility for their children and their grandchildren. And even if they were initially discriminated against, they understood that our system will over time allow them to become part of this one American family. And so we should take some of this rhetoric seriously and answer [it] boldly and clearly. But you shouldn’t think that that is representative of how the American people think.”