Barack Obama Talks About Philotimo and Coming Together

During his departure event, outgoing President Obama assured that President-elect Trump has shown a renewed interest to keep US Alliance’s strategic relationship along with Obama’s convincing capacity during their first historic meeting last Thursday as BBC reports. In 2010, Papandreou invited the president to Greece during a visit to the White House: At the time Obama “mentioned that he would want to take his two attractive daughters on donkey rides on a Greek island”, Papandreou recalled in an email. “I am certain that your successor. will continue on the same path”, he said.

On a farewell trip to Europe, Mr Obama tried to reassure allies that core U.S. priorities, including a commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military alliance, would continue under Mr Trump, despite the NY businessman’s campaign trail statements that called that commitment into question.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that Bannon’s new role “is an alarming signal that President-elect Trump remains committed to the hateful and divisive vision that defined his campaign”. But in a message of reassurance, Obama argued that democracy is bigger than any one person.

With the US presidential election of Republican Donald Trump laying bare frustrations and dissatisfaction in America, Obama said the impulse to “pull back from a globalized world is understandable”. After Athens, Obama planned visits to Germany and Peru.

“Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create – including on the internet – that’s when innovations are unleashed”, he said. That’s not true. They just simply chose to ignore us!

Mr Obama said globalisation has brought many economic benefits to the world.

“And obviously, Trump tapped into that particular strain within the Republican Party and then was able to broaden that enough and get enough votes to win the election”.

U.S. President Barack Obama waves after his speech at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on November 16, 2016 in Athens, Greece.

Obama said “economic dislocation” and “a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs” had “produced populist movements, both from the left and the right, in many countries in Europe”. Demonstrations were banned in parts of Athens, and road and subway stations were shut down for the first official visit of a sitting USA president since Bill Clinton came in 1999.

President Obama is on his last European tour and is making a push for strong democracies.

According to Reuters, the protesters were angry that the United States president had made a decision to visit the country just two days before the anniversary of the bloody 1973 student revolt that helped topple a Greek military junta backed by Washington.

“I, therefore, believe in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between the EU, Greece and the United States of America”.

On Wednesday, he is scheduled to tour the Acropolis and give a major speech about democracy and globalization before flying on to Berlin. He went to Greece partly to bolster Greek hopes of further debt relief from its European partners, which will meet December 5 to consider giving the ailing nation another pass on its mountain of debt.

He lauded the Greek people’s “extraordinary compassion” to hundreds of thousands of people arriving during Europe’s worst migrant crisis since World War II.

Trump, meanwhile, has been sharply critical of Obama’s plans for refugees, insisting he’ll stop Syrian migration into the United States until stricter background checks can be put in place to prevent terrorists from entering the country.