PHILADELPHIA, July 27: President Barack Obama says Republican Donald Trump "is somebody who likes attention and maybe surprised himself that he got this far."

Obama tells NBC's "Today Show" that Trump "doesn't seem to have any plans or policies or proposals or specific solutions."

The president made the comments in a taped interview aired Wednesday.

Asked about Trump's remarks that he alone could fix the country's problems, Obama said: "That's not how our founders designed our system. We're not a government where some strong man orders people around and banishes enemies."

President Barack Obama says he worries about a President Donald Trump who would lack "basic knowledge about the world" and has shown no interest in learning more about it.

Obama says, what he thinks is "scary is a president who doesn't know their stuff."

Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama added the Republican presidential nominee doesn't seem to know much about nuclear weapons, where countries are or the differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of the Muslim religion.

The interview was aired on NBC's "Today" the same day he is scheduled to address the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

 
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