Obama, Trump to meet at White House — Transition

Obama said he was encouraged by Trump’s wanting to work with his team on issues facing the country.

Later, Trump will go to Capitol Hill to talk with congressional leaders about the Republicans’ legislative agenda for next year. In the letter, Tusk offers his “sincere congratulations” to the new president on behalf of the European Union and invites Trump to visit Europe to meet up with EU officials as soon as possible.

HORSLEY: That was Obama describing Trump at a campaign rally in North Carolina just last week.

“I don’t think women should despair that a woman wasn’t elected”, said Joanne Leonard, a former Marathon County Board member who helped campaign for Trump.

“We really – we discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties”.

As I’ve mentioned before on these pages, this is a man who will say nearly anything to the religious right in order to procure their votes.

Michelle Obama met privately with Trump’s wife, Melania, in the White House residence.

The two men ended the historic White House encounter with a handshake and refused to take questions. I hear the people who say he is not a voice of progress, not “my America”, and “not what I stand for”. It is “something President Obama has thought about extensively over the past eight years”.

“The two men did not relitigate their differences in the Oval Office”, Earnest said.

Mr Trump, who said that it was their first meeting and only set to last for 10 or 15 minutes, remarked that it had been a “great honour” being with Mr Obama and that he had “great respect”. During the second presidential debate, Trump said he would hire a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and for alleged fraud in the Clinton Foundation.

U.S. President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met on Thursday for the first time, setting aside the deep rancor that dominated the long campaign season as they discussed the transition to the Republican’s inauguration on January 20.

According to a statement released by the White House Thursday, the president’s team had started preparing since early 2016 to facilitate a transition.

A peaceful and respectful transfer of power is one of the remarkable unwritten checks and balances we have in our democracy, and we need to lead by example to show our children how it works, especially when we are tested. He and Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan also put aside their differences, which kept the two from campaigning with each other over the past few months.

It was a shining moment for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has dedicated most of her adult life to public service. They sure didn’t pick Trump, but they voted Trump by staying away.

Reuters reports say more anti-Trump demonstrations were planned for the weekend.

Also unsurprising is the reaction to these protests from Trump supporters.

McConnell joined Trump and his entourage on a walking tour through part of the building. The White House, for example, did not arrange for the traditional photo op between the current first couple and the incoming one. Obama, meanwhile, had mocked Trump on the campaign trail.

As president-elect, Trump is entitled to the same daily intelligence briefing as Obama – including information on USA covert operations, information gleaned about world leaders and other data gathered by America’s 17 intelligence agencies.

During the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that year, Obama lit into Trump, mocking him before a ballroom of 2,000 guests and on live television.

Model plane builder Otto Dieffenbach III makes his remote control plane resembling US Presidential candidate Donald Trump and flies it over the beach in Carlsbad, California. “And I was heartened by that”, Obama said. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner also spent some time today talking with Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough.

“It was wide-ranging. We talked about some of the organizational issues, setting up the White House”. He was taking the baton; he’s handing it off.

Trump, commenting on the unrest for the first time, blamed the news media. The hardest truth of this election is that enough Americans in enough places wanted Donald Trump to be our president. But on Election Day, the ballots were counted, and the American people decided.

Robert Costa, a national political reporter for The Washington Post and a panelist at the event, attributed Trump’s victory to the rise of populism.

“We were walking around and all of a sudden police sirens came from behind and we were all like, ‘Oh they’re coming to stop us, ‘ but they actually cleared the way for us”, Dunlap said.