Trump knocks Obama, Clinton: ‘It’s an absolute war’

by Jesse Byrnes - 06/13/16 7:29 AM ET

"We better get smart or it's only going to get worse." –@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/Ih7rB9Hz1d

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) June 13, 2016

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump early Monday lashed out at President Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the wake of a mass shooting at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub.

“There’s never been anything to this extent,” Trump said during a phone call on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends.” “There’s no uniforms involved, but it’s war; it’s absolute war.

{mosads}”We better get smart, or it’s only going to get worse,” continued Trump, who on Sunday said Obama should step down as president and suggested that Clinton withdraw from the White House race.

“This man has no clue,” Trump said Monday of Obama, who has called the shooting that left 50 people dead and 53 more injured an “act of terror and hate.”

“The shooter was licensed. … He would have passed the test the president would have thrown up there,” Trump said of a push for gun control after the shooting. Trump called the suspected shooter, Omar Mateen, a “maniac.”

Trump said Obama is either “not tough, not smart or has something else in mind.”

Trump also ripped into Clinton as not up to the task as commander in chief. The former secretary of State on Sunday called for the U.S. to “redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at home and abroad.”

“She’s a weak person. She’s weak on so many different levels,” Trump said, pointing to remarks from a former Secret Service agent, saying the agent described her as “almost like a maniac.”

Trump called for potential suspects to be identified within the United States. Several Muslim groups on Sunday condemned the shooting in Florida, which has been characterized as domestic terrorism, though the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility online.

“You have thousands of shooters like this with the same mentality out there,” Trump said, blasting the “thousands” of refugees coming from Syria. “We have no idea who they are.

“Hillary Clinton is going to be worse than [Obama],” Trump said, saying she wanted a “500 percent” increase in the number of refugees being allowed into the U.S.

Trump called on members of Muslim communities around the country to identify other suspects, mentioning the attacks late last year in San Bernardino, Calif. Trump described the Orlando shooter as “sick with hate.”

The GOP candidate said there are “thousands of people in our country. We need to find out who they are and fast.”

“He doesn’t want to single out this group. This group is a disaster,” Trump said of the Muslim community, arguing Obama wasn’t going after radical Islamic terrorism.

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