Trump 'unfit' to be US president: Shorten

Labor leader Bill Shorten has slammed Donald Trump a day after the second US presidential debate, ramping up the rhetoric that he is unfit to be the next president.

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten

File image of Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten Source: AAP

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has intensified the Labor Party's attack on Donald Trump by declaring he is "entirely unsuitable" to be the leader of the free world. 

It comes a day after the second US presidential debate in which the Republican nominee defended graphical comments made in 2005 as "locker-room talk".

"I know I am not the only one relieved that with every passing day, with every disgusting, demeaning comment Mr Trump makes, the possibility of him being president fades," Mr Shorten said.
"By his own words and his own actions, he has confirmed the worst fears of millions in the United States and beyond its borders – he is entirely unsuitable to be leader of the free world."
In the footage Mr Trump can be heard bragging in vulgar language about kissing women, making unwarranted advances and trying to have sex with them.  

"I’m not proud of it. I apologised to my family, I apologised to the American people," Mr Trump said. 

Influential Independent Senator Nick Xenophon was equally critical of Trump and said Australia may have to reevaluate its relationship with the US should he become president. 

"I don't think we should hitch our wagon to a country run by someone like Donald Trump," he told reporters in Canberra.  

But Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm cautioned against trashing the relationship with Australia's closest ally.

"I caution Mr Shorten and Mr Turnbull and others about dumping on Donald Trump - he may win," he told reporters.

"They ought to be very careful about basically destroying our relationship with the possible future president before it's even started." 

With AAP 

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