President-elect Donald Trump came under swift scrutiny after condemning demonstrators in his first tweet since winning the presidency. In his stunning victory this week, Trump won the electoral college, 290-232.
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Despite the argument from Obama’s defenders that he saved the USA economy from the financial crisis that was raging when he took office, 44 percent said the job situation and 43 percent the economy in general was worse than it was eight years ago.
Police said they were treating the protests as a “riot” due to what they said was “extensive criminal and risky behavior”.
In the United States, the Electoral College determines the outcome of presidential elections. Just hours later, Trump went back on Twitter to slam media for having incited the protests, as reported by the Chicago Sun Times. “We will all come together and be proud!” he tweeted early Friday morning.
He did say, though, that he would rely heavily on his vice president-elect, Mike Pence, who had a decade of experience in Congress before becoming Indiana’s governor.
While President Barack Obama and President-Elect Donald Trump held an Oval Office photo opp on Thursday, their wives had their own power meeting just a few doors down.
Trump appeared more subdued than usual, and was unusually cautious and deferential in his remarks.
It was nearly like there weren’t multiple years in which Trump led a movement to try to prove the president wasn’t born in the United States and Obama hadn’t spent more time than any president in recent history campaigning vigorously against Trump.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, right, and Republican nominee Donald Trump walk off the stage after the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016.
Mrs Clinton was closer to gaining Arizona than Mr Obama, who lost by more than 9 percentage points during his two runs for president.
As you probably remember, Obama has thrown some shad Trump’s way recently by declaring the oversized toddler clown was “unfit to be commander-in-chief” and even said he doesn’t “have what it takes” to be president!
“People who voted for Trump are happy. We should have a revolution in this country!” But it offers a peek into Trump’s unique perspective: when he sees thousands of Americans taking to the streets to protest his election, it doesn’t occur to him to reflect on deep national divisions or the damage his candidacy did to civil norms.
“Here’s a good rule”.
Asked at a White House briefing on Thursday whether the meeting had eased any of the concerns about Trump that Obama expressed during the campaign, Earnest said: “The president was never in a position to choose a successor”. Michelle Obama’s oldest daughter Malia was also ten when Obama was elected president in 2008. He said Obama explained “some of the really great things that have been achieved”, but did not elaborate. “Melania liked Mrs. O a lot!”
On that trip, Obama is likely to be inundated with panicked questions about America’s role in world affairs. With Republican support and control in the House and Senate, he has three key issues at the top of his list.
President-elect Trump has shaken some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies by questioning whether Washington should defend them because some have not “fulfilled their obligations” to the United States. “We’re going to work very strongly on immigration, health care and we’re looking at jobs, big league jobs”.
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Trump has argued in the past that the pre-existing condition aspect of the law should not be repealed.
