The president joined Hillary Clinton in portraying the Republican presidential candidate as unfit for the White House following his comments in the wake of the Orlando massacre .
A seething Obama responded to Trump's proposed suspension of immigration from countries with a " history of terrorism " after Sunday's killing of 49 people in Pulse nightclub.
Obama and Clinton highlighted how gunman Omar Mateen, 29, was born in the US to parents who immigrated from Afghanistan.
Trump had criticised Obama for not using the term "radical Islamic terrorism" to describe Islamic State militants.
"What exactly would using this label accomplish, what exactly would it change?" Obama replied. "Someone seriously thinks we don't know who we're fighting? ... There's no magic to the phrase 'radical Islam.' It's a political talking point. It is not a strategy."
"Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction," said Obama, criticising the "yapping" and "loose talk" he said he hears from Republicans.
Obama tangled with Trump in 2011, producing his birth certificate to refute Trump's claim that the president was not born in the United States.
Obama said: "We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating to America.
"We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop?"
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