Barack Obama has accused Donald Trump of treating the US presidency like a “reality show” and “making stuff up” as he warned that his successor was willing to “tear down democracy” to get a second term in the White House.

In a cutting speech which repeatedly called out Mr Trump by name Mr Obama hit out at “the meanness and the lies and crazy conspiracy theories” which have left some young people disillusioned with the current state of politics.

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