Obama laces into Trump for whipping up terrorism fears

President Barack Obama ripped into Donald Trump on Tuesday for criticizing him for not using the phrase "radical Islam" and for renewing his proposed Muslim ban, warning about the danger that the presumptive Republican nominee would pose as president.

Should the United States “fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush” and “imply that we are at war with an entire religion,” Obama said after a meeting with his National Security Council at the Treasury Department, “then we are doing the terrorists’ work for them.”

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