President Barack Obama said that Donald Trump offered a deeply pessimistic outlook at the Republican National Convention that doesn't match reality.
Noting he didn't watch Trump's acceptance speech on Thursday -- "I've got a lot of stuff to do," he noted -- Obama said he read news coverage of the remarks.
"This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people," Obama said during a press conference in the White House East Room alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
"America is much less violent than it was 20 or 30 years ago," Obama said, citing statistics that he said showed crime rates have fallen under his presidency.
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