Obama: ‘We are all on one team’

Before his run, Trump served as the defacto leader of the “birther” movement, questioning the USA citizenship of the nation’s first black president.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is leading Trump’s transition team. Obama called the Republican in the early hours of the morning Wednesday to congratulate him on his stunning victory, which marked a forceful rebuke by voters to Obama’s eight years in office.

Kennedy’s son broke a long drought of boys living in The White House. She said the country could embrace Condoleezza Rice for president, she served as George W. Bush’s second-term secretary of state. The Republican’s top advisers rebuffed news organizations’ requests for a small “pool” of journalists to trail him as he attended the meetings. Their wives also plan to meet. Along with Kushner, all were listed as members of Trump’s Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee in a shakeup of the organization on Friday.

“They do not have an extensive personal relationship”, Earnest said Wednesday, drawing laughs from reporters. The briefings will include budget details, flow charts for staff and other information.

Trump was also beginning the process of putting together his White House team. He also said Mr Trump had earned a “mandate” to enact his agenda. “Michelle Obama has publicly explained the stress of moving to a new place, living in a fishbowl, a museum, and I’m sure Melania Trump is feeling part of that same anxiety”, said Earnest.

“So much energy was put into the election itself”, Kingston said, “as opposed to how are we going to divide up the spoils”.

The same is true for Trump’s three adult children: Donald Jr, Eric, and Ivanka. I’ve said it before: I think of this job as being a relay run.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption In Los Angeles protesters built an effigy resembling Mr Trump. Trump and Ryan have had a tense relationship.

Trump has blasted Ryan as disloyal, “weak” and “ineffective”.

US’s President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama met for the first time post-election on November 10 (EST) and pledged to work together in the coming weeks till Trump is sworn in as the USA’s next president on January 20, 2017. It will follow Trump’s White House meeting with President Barack Obama. The person was not authorized to discuss details by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. His aides said he was huddled with advisers at his offices in NY. Fifteen people were arrested, the New York Times reported. Some demonstrators carried placards declaring “Not My President”. The margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point. “Because if you succeed, then the country succeeds”.

Ivanka Trump got the position of vice-president, it is the transition administration, but who knows, maybe she’ll stay on it for the next four years?

Trump has supported reinstating waterboarding and other extreme forms of torture that Obama banned. Some offer that being the President of the United States will improve the prospect of the Trump brand globally.

“It’s given us a lens into how differently friends and neighbors see the nation and the issues we’re facing”, says Parisa Parsa, executive director of Essential Partners, a dialogue group based in Cambridge, Mass. The Trump campaign targeted Bill at the height of the election – reintroducing decades-old sexual misconduct allegations against him to damage Hillary. He said: “That’s politics though”.

Obama was born in Hawaii.

U.S. president Barack Obama called Donald Trump, his newly-elected successor, on Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory and invited him to the White House for talks on Thursday. “The peaceful transfer of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy”. Obama is a Democrat who ushered in a sweeping health care law and brokered a landmark nuclear accord with Iran. During the campaign, Trump mentioned that he would call for a repeal of Obamacare and begin to re-examine the country’s existing trade deals.

Donald Trump has promised to revive the American dream after pulling off an astonishing victory in the race for the White House.