Barack Obama has said that Donald Trump has ‘never been shy’ about wanting to take America ‘backwards’.

The former US President is speaking tonight at the O2 in London about topics ranging from free speech in America to how great London is.

He told broadcaster David Olusoga that the US is at a ‘fork in the road’ following the assassination of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk.

But within seconds, Obama’s mic cut off, said Sarah Hooper, a Metro news reporter attending the talk.

He continued: ‘In the United States right now, what’s ascendant, and my successor has not been particularly shy about it, is the desire to go back to a very particular way of thinking about America, where “we, the people” means just some people, not all people.

‘Where there are some pretty clear hierarchies in

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