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All three network morning shows on Thursday heralded President Obama blasting Donald Trump during a trip to Japan, declaring that world leaders were “rattled” by the Republican candidate. In stark contrast, when then-President Bush criticized then-Senator Obama’s views on foreign policy during an overseas trip in 2008, those same networks lined up Democrats to denounce the “political shot heard 'round the world.”
At the top of NBC’s Today on Thursday, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Global threat? President Obama, traveling in Japan, with his harshest criticism yet of Donald Trump, saying he’s rattled foreign leaders.” A soundbite ran of Obama warning: “A lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude.”