Trump news at a glance: Obama says the US caught between two visions of the future as he criticises the president

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Barack Obama has said the US is in the middle of a tug of war" between two visions of the future, criticising progressives for becoming smug" and complacent" while populists pushed a conservative vision.

The former US president said on one side was the progressive view in which change comes through democracy, while the other, driven by populists including Trump, see a return to an older, more conservative worldview.