As is customary when a new President is elected, there must be the first meeting between the current officeholder and the new contender. It has always been the case. But the one between Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump was always going to be extremely awkward.
Remember that Donald Trump spent an unholy amount of energy trying to get Obama to turn over his birth certificate to prove that he wasn’t born in Kenya. He’d also repeatedly called Obama the worst president in the history of the United States, which means he’d worse than Warren G. Harding, who was pretty bad.
But look, they had to put aside their differences and have their meeting, and they did it. Based on the photos and what little video could be captured, it was an intensely awkward experience.
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Look at this. Look at this man:
My dude Obama looks like he just got told that he just missed Maccas breakfast.
But look, now that Trump’s within reach of power, he can be much kinder to Obama. He said he would “very much look forward” to dealing with Obama in future. He also called him a “very good man,” which a different tack to when he suggested Obama founded ISIS. But you know.
“I have great respect, the meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half, and it could’ve, as far as I’m concerned, it could’ve gone on for a lot longer,” the president-elect said.
In the grand scheme of awkward meetings, this has gotta be up there.
Source: Mashable.
Photo: Getty Images / Win McNamee.
