Standing along side the prime minister of Singapore, Obama cast aside any pretense of domestic unity and described Trump as "woefully unprepared and unfit to serve as president".
"He keeps proving it", Obama added " This isn't a situation where you have an episode gaffe," Obama said as the 70-year-old mogul was embroiled in multiple controversies over his comments about Muslims babies, firefighters and military.
" This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making, there has to be a point you say: this is not somebody i can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my part."
Obama ha endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 White House race and has repeatedly pilloried Tromp's populism.
But his comments in the East Room of the White House where Abraham Lincoln lay in state and Theodore Roosevelt today casts a painted gaze, are a significant and highly personal escalation of presidential rhetoric.
"There have been Republican presidents with whom I've disagreed with, but i didn't have a doubt that they could function as a president," Obama said.
Turning to his 2008 and 2012 election opponents, Obama said "Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn't do the job."
Obama's comments came amid a roiling war of words between Trump and the father of a slain US soldier who rebuked the Republican nominee as having "sacrificed nothing."
Trump also has come under fire for remarks in a television interview in which he appeared not to be aware of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crime after its takeover form Ukraine.
Obama said: " The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job."
"There has to come a point in which you say 'enough' " he said in a comment directed to Republicans.
"The alternative is the entire party and the Republican part effectively endorses and validates the positions being articulated by Mr Trump. As I said in my speech last week, i don't think that represents a views of a whole lot Republicans out there."
Obama last week addressed the Democratic convention in Philadelphia and painted this election as a choice not between a Democratic and Republican, but a Democrat and a demagogue who threatens democracy.
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