Donald Trump Donald TrumpWhite nationalist Trump backer says he's stopping anti-McMullin robocalls Trump announces 0M in Oct. small-dollar donations The presidential 'bully pulpit' shouldn't take aim at Americans MORE early Sunday blasted a report in The New York Times about how he has treated women in private. 
 
 The presumptive Republican presidential nominee called it a “lame hit piece” on Twitter, adding that he provided “many names” of women he helped that were not used in the article. 
 
 Everyone is laughing at the @nytimes for the lame hit piece they did on me and women.I gave them many names of women I helped-refused to use — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016 
 
 One of the reporters later called that tweet "factually inaccurate," saying women suggested by Trump's office were interviewed. 
 
 A factually inaccurate tweet: we did interview and quote women his office suggested in the story: https://t.co/Jfu05iK5Et — Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) May 15, 2016 
 
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 The Times said it interviewed dozens of women who encountered the billionaire real estate mogul, revealing a “complex, at times contradictory portrait.” 
 
 The newspaper’s report said Trump both nurtured women’s careers and mocked their appearance. 
 
 Trump also said the "failing" newspaper "found nothing" and called on the "dishonest" media to do a "real story" on the "Clintons and media." 
 
 The failing @nytimes wrote yet another hit piece on me. All are impressed with how nicely I have treated women, they found nothing. A joke! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016 
 
 Why doesn't the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016 
 
 — This report was updated at 12:24 p.m. ||||| President Obama delivered a commencement address at Rutgers University on Sunday that steered clear of the typical graduation advice and sounded a lot like a tough, aggressive takedown of the Republican presidential front-runner. 
 
 The president, who spoke before a crowd of more than 50,000 in the school’s football stadium here, called on the graduates to reject politicians who hark back to better days. The 45-minute-long address was filled with obvious jabs at presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, whom the president didn’t name but who was a foil for the speech’s most cutting applause lines. 
 
 Obama slammed Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the country’s southern border, saying the world is becoming ever more interconnected and “building walls won’t change that.” 
 
 He mocked Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again,” saying that there was never a better time to be alive on the planet and in America. College graduation rates are up, he said. Crime rates have dropped, and more women are in the workplace than ever before in the country’s history. 
 
 “When you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt,” he said to boisterous applause. “Take it with a grain of salt.” 
 
 The president throughout his speech decried a strain of anti- 
 
 intellectualism in American politics that he said rejects science, reason and debate. “These are things you want in people making policy,” Obama said to laughter. “That might seem obvious.” 
 
 At one point, clearly referring to Trump and congressional Republicans who have decried efforts to combat global warming, Obama warned that “in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.” 
 
 “It’s not cool to not know what you are talking about,” he said. “That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you are talking about.” 
 
 Throughout the year, Obama has turned again and again in speeches to the obligations that come with citizenship and the need for a more reasoned and respectful political debate at a moment when the country’s politics have never seemed more vulgar and poisonous. 
 
 Obama used his State of the Union address in January to call for a better politics in the country. He returned to the theme in a February speech to the Illinois Senate, in a March address at an awards banquet honoring political journalists, and most recently last week in a commencement speech at Howard University . 
 
 The Rutgers address picked up many of the themes in those earlier speeches but was the most explicitly partisan and edgy of the addresses and offered the clearest indication so far of how the president will make the case for a Democratic successor this summer and fall on the campaign trail. 
 
 Obama blasted the disdain for facts in the current political debates and the desire for political amateurs — clearly taking another dig at Trump’s lack of traditional political experience. Obama noted ironically that Americans like their doctors and airline pilots to be experienced and wondered why “in our public lives we suddenly think, ‘I don’t want someone who has done it before.’ ” 
 
 Students listen to President Barack Obama during the commencement ceremony at Rutgers University on May 15. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) 
 
 “You might wonder where this strain of anti-intellectualism came from,” Obama said. “The rejection of reason, the rejection of facts; that is the path to decline.” 
 
 He called on the graduates to hold leaders accountable and expect them “to know what the heck they are talking about.” 
 
 The president’s speech was also infused with a progressive optimism that is a regular element of his addresses and maintains that the country’s best days are ahead. He asked the students to vote and remain engaged in American politics, a theme he also hit in his Howard commencement speech and in an interview with the Daily Targum, Rutgers’s student newspaper. 
 
 “The system isn’t as rigged as you think, and it isn’t as hopeless as you think,” he said. 
 
 “Have faith in democracy,” Obama said a few minutes later. “It is not always pretty. I know. Really. I have been living it.” 
 
 Finally, he warned the students against a righteous refusal to compromise that stymies progress. As an example, Obama said he disagreed with students who a few years earlier had objected to an invitation for former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to speak at the university. 
 
 Despite their disagreements over policy, Obama said that the former secretary brought an important perspective and that democracy demands that Americans listen to one another. 
 
 “If you disagree with someone, bring them in,” he said. 
 
 The Rutgers speech was the second of three commencement addresses that the president will give this year. 
 
 Last week, at Howard, Obama focused on citizenship and social justice. In early June, he will deliver commencement remarks at the Air Force Academy. 
 
 “The truth is, Rutgers, I came here because you asked,” Obama said. “You are the first to launch a three-year campaign” that included emails, letters, tweets YouTube videos and three letters from the student body president’s grandmothers. 
 
 “That was smart,” Obama said. “I have a soft spot for grandmothers.” ||||| LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump said he was unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the U.S. presidential candidate as “divisive, stupid and wrong” for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. 
 
 Cameron criticised Trump in the British parliament over his call for the ban on Muslims and suggested that the New York billionaire, who is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, would unite Britain against him if he visited. 
 
 “It looks like we’re not going to have a very good relationship, who knows?” Trump told Britain’s ITV television station in an interview aired on Monday when asked how ties would fare if he won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8. 
 
 “Well number one, I’m not stupid, okay. I can tell you that right now. Just the opposite. Number Two, in terms of divisive: I don’t think I’m a divisive person. I’m a unifier, unlike our president right now,” Trump said, referring to Barack Obama. 
 
 Cameron’s spokesman said the prime minister stood by his original comments. 
 
 The United States is Britain’s closest ally. U.S. companies are the biggest foreign direct investors in Britain and the so- called ‘special relationship’ with Washington has been the cornerstone of British diplomacy since World War Two. 
 
 Trump’s often controversial comments on everything from Muslims and women to the future of NATO and relations with Russia have drawn criticism from Berlin, Paris and other European capitals. 
 
 But neither Germany’s Angela Merkel nor France’s Francois Hollande have gone as far as Cameron in chiding Trump who, if he wins in November, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful nation and largest economy from January 20 next year. 
 
 “DIVISIVE, STUPID AND WRONG” 
 
 Cameron will work with whoever is elected U.S. president and is committed to maintaining the special relationship, the prime minister’s spokesman said. 
 
 “The PM has made his views on Donald Trump’s comments very clear. He disagrees with them,” the spokesman said. “He continues to believe that preventing Muslims from entering the U.S. is divisive, stupid and wrong. He stands by his comments.” 
 
 The spokesman refused to answer questions on who Cameron would like to see win in November but said there was no telephone call or meeting planned with Trump, adding: “If one is proposed we will consider it.” 
 
 On a more conciliatory note, Cameron has said Trump deserves respect for making it through the gruelling Republican primary process. The Times newspaper also reported last month Cameron had ordered diplomats to attempt to repair relations with Trump. 
 
 “I hope to have a good relationship with him but it sounds like he’s not willing to address the problem either,” Trump told ITV. 
 
 Trump also criticised London’s newly elected Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan for making “very rude statements”. 
 
 Trump had initially welcomed Khan’s election and said he would make an exception in the event of a ban on Muslims for him entering the United States, drawing a sharp reply from Khan. 
 
 Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Eugene, Oregon, U.S., May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo 
 
 “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe - it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of the extremists,” Khan said. 
 
 Responding to this criticism in the ITV interview, Trump said: “He doesn’t know me, never met me, doesn’t know what I am all about. I think they are very rude statements. Frankly, tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements. It is ignorant for him to say that.”
– A New York Times look at Donald Trump's treatment of women really got under his skin, if the number of angry tweets is anything to go by. In nine tweets and retweets Sunday (and three more Monday), Trump poured scorn on the "failing" NYT and its "lame hit piece," which, among other things, revealed that he kissed many Miss USA contestants on the mouth. "I have had so many calls from high ranking people laughing at the stupidity" of the NYT, he tweeted, accusing the media of being on a "witch hunt." He also accused the NYT of failing to contact any of the women he had suggested they talk to, the Hill reports. Reporter Michael Barbaro tweeted that the accusation was "factually inaccurate," and that women named by Trump's office were among the dozens of women interviewed for the piece. In other Trump news: In yet another tweet, Trump said a Washington Post story about potential VP candidates was wrong. He said most of the candidates named were not being considered. President Obama didn't name Trump in his commencement address at Rutgers University on Sunday, but it was obvious whom he was talking about with his denunciations of "anti-intellectualism," wall-building, and misplaced nostalgia for the "good old days," the Washington Post reports. Obama also warned that "ignorance is not a virtue." "It's not cool to not know what you are talking about," he said. "That's not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That's not challenging political correctness. That's just not knowing what you are talking about." Reuters reports that in an interview that aired on Monday in Britain, Trump said he probably wouldn't have a good relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron, who called his remarks on Muslims last year "divisive, stupid, and wrong." "I hope to have a good relationship with him, but it sounds like he's not willing to address the problem either," said Trump. He also called London Mayor Sadiq Khan "ignorant"—for calling him ignorant.