Melania Trump, Michelle Obama tete-a-tete over tea at White House

Throughout the presidential campaign, neither man has been less than vocal about his opposition of the other. Obama met with Trump in the Oval Office to talk presidential transition as the Cavaliers were getting a tour, then Obama greeted the National Basketball Association champions on the South Lawn about two hours later.

Indeed, Trump will take office in January with Congress fully in his party’s control, giving him strength to try to pass his agenda and turn the Supreme Court in a conservative direction. He said the two talked about “organizational issues”, as well as domestic and foreign policies. “For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country”, Trump said. At the end of the meeting, Obama described his conversation with Trump as “excellent” and “wide-ranging”, and stressed that his number one priority was facilitating a smooth transition of power. That’s what I heard when I spoke to him directly.

The two shook hands for the cameras, but did not take questions from reporters.

As president-elect, Trump is entitled to get the same daily intelligence briefing as Obama – one that includes information on USA covert operations, information gleaned about world leaders and other data gathered by America’s 17 intelligence agencies. The two women discussed raising children at the White House, Earnest said.

Those programs benefit voters age 65 and older, a cohort that Trump won with a narrow majority, but they are also targets of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s long-term plans for a leaner federal budget.

“We want to make sure they feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition”, Obama said.

“All of a sudden, you’re faced with the reality that the man who’s going to lead you has routinely used racist, misogynist, insulting words”, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.

However, all three speeches have not gained as much attention as CNN political commentator Van Jones when he expressed his hurt at the “whitelash” seen with Trump’s election. During his campaign, Trump was highly critical of NAFTA and said existing free trade deals have shipped jobs overseas.

In an interview Wednesday, White House communications director Jennifer Psaki said the president has talked privately with his staff, as well as publicly, about putting institutional interests ahead of political ones.

The President-elect appears to have softened his position on the Affordable Care Act – President Obama’s signature piece of legislation – after the pair held a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday. While Clinton was originally scheduled to deliver her speech at the Jacob Javits Center following Trump’s acceptance as president, she eventually delivered her concession speech the next morning on November 9. The FBI said earlier this week that the investigation had found no evidence of criminality.

At the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, with Trump in the audience, Obama mocked Trump’s birtherism – joking that “no one is happier” Obama had released his long-form birth certificate. The Republican’s top advisers rebuffed news organizations’ requests for a small “pool” of journalists to trail Trump as he attended meetings Washington.

And there’s repealing the nation’s health care law, which will take painstaking and potentially lengthy negotiations to come up with a solution. Trump won 279 electoral votes, crossing the needed 270 mark with Wisconsin, while Clinton received 228 electoral votes.

He said: “It’s been what they call a historic event – but to be a really historic we have to do a great job. I hope that he maintains that spirit throughout this transition, and I certainly hope that’s how his presidency has a chance to begin”, he added. Middle-aged white men with only high school degrees – the core of Trump’s support – saw their inflation-adjusted incomes plummet 9 percent from 1996 through 2014, according to Sentier Research, a data analytics firm founded by former Census Bureau officials.