“If this – whoever you were talking about – was in front of me, which has happened a couple times, he don’t talk like that because he knows better,” Obama said.
“That filter of the phone creates a situation where people just say kind of crazy stuff that they would never say to your face with no consequences.”
The remarks came just days after Trump referred to Obama as a “stupid son of a b*tch” during a press appearance at the G7 Summit in France, in reference to the Iran nuclear deal signed during Obama’s presidency a decade ago.
Obama did not mention that specific comment by name, but the timing made the message clear.