CNN host Anderson Cooper said on his show Wednesday that President Obama may not be so silent about the Trump presidency when he leaves office, unlike George W. Bush when Obama entered the White House.
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He departs Trump Tower, his Manhattan home and campaign headquarters, for New York’s La Guardia airport where he will board an aircraft from the presidential fleet, leaving behind his private Boeing jet.
Becoming a kind of anti-Trump in the sense that he maintains what Thurston calls a “scandal-free” character, which is something neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton could promise, is key for Obama to maintain a base of supporters that will listen to and spread his message. In the plan for his first 100 days he laid out this past October, he proposed fully repealing the law and replacing it with health savings accounts. Dozens of Democratic members of Congress are planning to boycott Donald Trump’s inauguration. About 60 percent of Americans said he is doing a good job, his highest approval since June 2009, according to a CNN/ORC poll.
Obama expressed hope that when Trump takes over the office, he would realize the complexity of certain issues and may agree with the previous administration on some policies, including the healthcare reform.
The real estate mogul is expected to sign some paperwork on Friday.
The timing of executive orders is likely to be fluid.
Trump has been complaining about fake news stories. The post goes on to say that eight years of Obama’s presidency had challenged conservatism but concluded that Trump’s election “smashes the idea that the country had shifted irrevocably to the left”.
McGurk leads up the effort against ISIS, while Trump lambasted Obama’s handling of the group and insisted he would beat it easily and quickly.
Palm Springs Airport officials said that travelers flying in and out of Palm Springs International Airport on Friday shouldn’t expect to be held up when Obama arrives.
Still, he said, his daughters hadn’t gotten cynical.
Rugs will come up and new ones will go down, even walls are moved to widen rooms, if President Trump and his family have requested this. So while I knew that he wouldn’t know (or care) whether people from my town wanted to see his birth certificate, he was hearing then-businessman Donald Trump demand to see it.
“I’ll see you on January 19th, very importantly, at the Lincoln Memorial at four o’clock”, Trump says with forced enthusiasm.
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What’s unclear is what restrictions the president-elect would mean to target. “The reason that we are the only country that makes it harder to vote, is, it traces directly back to Jim Crowe and the legacy of slavery”, he said.
