(BUSINESS INSIDER) — President Barack Obama's top spokesman said Tuesday that real-estate mogul Donald Trump had disqualified himself from the Oval Office with his "deeply offensive" proposal to suspend all Muslims from entering the US.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tore into Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, when he was asked about the proposal during his daily media briefing.
"The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair. The whole carnival-barker routine that we've seen for some time now," Earnest said.
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