I don't pay attention to Donald Trump tweets, says Barack Obama

Washington, May 7: US President Barack Obama on Friday said he does not pay attention to the tweets of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, which of late has been creating a lot of controversies in the social media.

"I have no thoughts on Mr Trump's tweets," Obama said. "As a general rule, I don't pay attention to Mr Trump's tweets. I think that will be true for, I think, for the next six months. So, if you could just file that one," Obama told reporters when asked about Trump's latest taco bowl tweet.

A day before, Trump tweeted picture of him showing eating taco bowl. "I love Hispanics!" Trump said.

"I had 59,000 retweets in a short period of what, that's like, almost got to be some kind of a record," Trump told Fox News.

"People loved it. And you know what? I'm going to do great with the Hispanics. I mean, I'm going to do fantastic, because I'm bringing jobs back to America," he said. Trump has nearly eight million followers on Twitter.

PTI