Obama: Talks with Trump ‘Excellent,’ ‘Wide-Ranging’

After meeting Obama, Trump on November 10 met with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, saying that after his inauguration he will work very quickly on issues like healthcare and immigration.

Setting aside the deep rancour that dominated the long campaign season to discuss the transition to the Republicans on 20 January, Obama and Trump held their first meeting in the Oval Office. Obama called the meeting “excellent”, and his successor said he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president’s “counsel”. Demonstrators from New England to the West Coast vented against the election victor on Wednesday, chanting “Not my president”, burning a papier mache head of Mr Trump, beating a pinata with his likeness and carrying signs that said “Impeach Trump”. And he promised that his “number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures the president-elect is successful”.

As Trump’s plane left LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Thursday morning for the first time as president-elect, Port Authority fire trucks showered Trump’s plane with a water cannon salute. “Hey everybody. It’s finally election night, and I imagine that’s welcome news to most of you, because let’s face it, this has been an exhausting, stressful, and sometimes downright weird election for all of us”, he said during a speech that was streamed on BuzzFeed.

Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, addressed the mishap and explained in a statement that the president-elect’s team will adhere to press protocol in the future.

“A pool of reporters is in place and ready to cover President-elect Trump”. We are Americans first.

Despite a long history of animosity between Obama and Trump, both were gracious.

During a bitter campaign that tugged at America’s democratic fabric, the tycoon pledged to deport illegal immigrants, ban Muslims from the country and tear up free-trade deals. Those who worry that he will usher in an era of xenophobic racism, strip away basic civil rights, and make good on his campaign promises to repeal Obamacare took to the streets by the thousands Wednesday evening in protests around the country. “I don’t know why”, he said.

He also reached out to those who hadn’t voted for him.

Republican Chris Christie, who is leading Trump’s transition team, told NBC’s “Today” program, “We heard a lot about the peaceful transfer of power during this election, and I think you’ll see that symbolized today”. “We will all come together as never before”. When a correspondent reported that Trump had already left Washington for his home in Manhattan, the update didn’t go over well with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim”, Trump told Fox News in 2011. “I want to emphasize to you, Mr”.