Trump meets with Obama White House

In an October 25 Reuters interview, Trump said his top priorities when he takes office would be building stronger borders, repealing Obama’s national healthcare plan, aiding military veterans and working to create more jobs. Trump will now head to Capitol Hill to meet with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

This is what usually happens before that first transfer-of-power meeting. “Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach”.

Obama blasted Trump throughout the campaign as unfit to serve as a commander in chief.

In what seemed like a possible early pivot by Trump, controversial campaign proposals, including his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, disappeared for a while on Thursday from the president-elect’s campaign website.

President-elect Donald Trump’s meeting with President Barack Obama has now lasted more than an hour.

Trump was speaking at the end of his meeting Thursday with Obama in the Oval Office.

Obama said that he and Trump spoke on foreign and domestic policies along with organizing the Whitehouse ahead of Trump’s January 12th inauguration. “I am contacting you for your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country”. “Because if you succeed the country succeeds”.

As the pool of reporters were led out, Trump told them several times that Obama was “a very good man”.

Trump noted that he and Obama haven’t met each other before. I have great respect for him.

The extraordinary meeting was a reflection of the swift and sudden change in the political mood between the frenzied last days of an election campaign and the reality of government and the transition of power between two administrations that follows.

“It is no secret that the president-elect and I have some pretty significant differences”, Obama said in the Rose Garden on Wednesday. Trump said they talked about “difficulties” around the world but also about accomplishments. Trump added that he plans to seek counsel from Obama in the future.

He said Obama explained “some of the great things that have been achieved”, but did not elaborate. “We are Americans first”, he said.

If Trump makes good on his campaign promises, he’ll wipe away much of what Obama has done during his eight years in office. He’s pledged to repeal Obama’s signature health care law and pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran.

While their husbands talked, first lady Michelle Obama showed her successor Melania Trump the residence where the first family lives and talked with her about raising children in the White House.

Trump flew from NY to Washington on his private jet without the so-called “pool” of reporters, photographers and television cameras that travel with presidents and presidents-elect. Only 112 million Americans voted, and people under 30 made up only 19 percent of that vote, according to the New York Times.

Trump’s victory defied the majority of the polls, polls which had led many to believe that Clinton would win.

The meeting between Obama and Trump was their most extended conversation.

Kelly took to Twitter shortly after the review dropped to insist that she is not suggesting that Fox executives gave Trump a debate question before the first debate-just that he had become broadly aware of its subject. A handful of other Trump aides trailed behind Kushner and McDonough.

The anticipated show of civility at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue contrasted with postelection scenes of protests across a politically divided country.

It’s unclear whether Trump, a highly unusual candidate, will embrace numerous traditions of the presidency.

Mr Trump had campaigned on a promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, with Mrs Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, frequently highlighted during his campaign against the rival he dubbed “crooked Hillary”.