Now, Donald Trump has only kind words for Barack Obama

Obama – concluding the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima – acknowledged that he wouldn’t hesitate to play critic in a Trump presidency if “necessary”.

With the United States presidential transition two weeks in, the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump faces an avalanche of conflict-of-interest troubles. (George W. Bush’s political toxicity in the years immediately following his departure made his sabbatical easier.) But Trump rose to political prominence with a racist campaign questioning Barack Obama’s legitimacy as a president and a citizen; Obama campaigned hard against Trump, flatly calling him unfit for the presidency.

Obama, while speaking in Lima, Peru on the final day of his last trip overseas, spent the majority of his trip answering questions on what a Trump presidency will mean for worldwide allies – including America’s influence globally.

In Greece last Wednesday, Obama tried to assure European leaders that Trump would reverse himself and continue to honor its commitments to NATO – including treaty obligations to defend all other member countries.

Obama suggested a change is nearly inevitable when he said, “What I can guarantee is. that reality will force him to adjust how he approaches many of these issues – that’s just the way this office works”.

The president said that despite the election defeat for Hillary Clinton, he was not “worried about being the last Democratic president”.

“We are in a spectacularly different place today than we were when President Obama took office”.

Obama’s trip was dominated by the deep uncertainty Trump has unleashed about the world order with his attacks on free trade and the U.S. role as global “policeman”.

Kuczynski, whose wife Nancy is from Wisconsin, said another sign to him was how close the polls were in her home state and Pennsylvania, where they lived before he won the presidency of Peru. According to unnamed sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal, however, Obama was concerned by Trump’s lack of preparation.

Earlier, President Barack Obama has said that while he won’t spend his time criticising Donald Trump, but he will speak up for American “values or ideals”. House Democrats hold leadership elections on November 30.

On immigration, Trump said he will ask the Department of Labor to “investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker”.

“At this stage, we’re going to need to have a change in how all parties think about this”.

Obama’s tenure as the 44th president of the US will end on January 20, 2017, when Trump will be sworn-in as the 45th president.

Trump promised during his campaign to put an end to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), made up of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and also referred to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes two Latin American countries, Chile and Peru, as a “disaster”.