Obama to tutor Donald on how to run the US.

Trump not knowing much about the job should surprise no one who has actually been following this election. He made it very clear numerous times during the debates that he doesn't actually know what the job entails, or its limits.

I'm glad to hear Obama is going to put a bit more effort than is normal to help teach and guide Trump, my hope is that he will continue to talk with Trump after and be a voice in his ear after Trump becomes president, and hopefully be a counter weight to the seemingly very extreme right wing echo chamber that Trump is setting up for himself in the whitehouse. Hopefully Obama can pull him in a slightly more moderate direction.

As far as how much damage Trump can do in 4 years, it's difficult to say. I think the most potential for long term damage would lie with foreign affairs and how the rest of the world might see America if Trump fails to actually earn their respect and earns a leadership role. Then other countries will take up that leadership role on various aspects. We're already seeing this with the Paris agreement for climate change. Other countries are planning on just moving forward without us, including China and possibly even Russia, this would improve the standing of China and Russia in the eyes of the rest of the world while simultaneously diminish our standing.

There might not be a singular reason why he won, but Hillary and the way a good portion of the media treated her are two of the reasons Trump won and it's both sad and funny that some people can't seem to bring themselves to admit it.

I know some want Obama to just wash his hands of everything. Some because they don't want him involved, some because they feel America needs to learn a lesson. But I think that if it's shown Trump is actually willing to accept help from Obama(even only a small amount) that is a good sign.

Originally posted by Surtur
I know some want Obama to just wash his hands of everything. Some because they don't want him involved, some because they feel America needs to learn a lesson. But I think that if it's shown Trump is actually willing to accept any kind of help from Obama that is a good sign.

I agree. I think seeing the two of them together more often over the next couple of months will go a long way towards reassuring those who are legitimately scared of Trump and his presidency. Though ultimately it's Trump's actions that he will be judged on.

News Hour: Trump's World
BBC World Service
Sat 12 Nov 2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04f31kt

Contributors:

James Woolsey - former Director of the CIA and currently a senior advisor to Donald Trump

Carl Bildt - former Swedish Prime Minister

Kevin Rudd - former Australian Prime Minister

Thomas Wright - fellow at the Brookings Insitution in Washington

Jane Arraf - journalist and writer who lives between Cairo and Baghdad

The Two Former Presidents of Sweden and Australia and The Former Head of The CIA

In particular

Give good information on The Transition Process.

A fully government staffed transition team has been working with trumps transition team for months now.

Strong Credible Sources of Information.
Different from comments leaked to the media by an un named, un-identified DNC loyalist on staff at The White House.

What Obama is saying. What Trump is saying.

Its a great narrative.

A Multi Trillion Dollar Apparatus like the U.S. Government just doesn't leave stuff like this to the last minute, to the last couple of months, to chance.

They've got it all worked out/Its been all worked out. Now that they've actually won the thing. They won't be rushing around trying to recruit 1 thousand or two thousand or 4 thousand people/faces.

They're just going to be be making the call ups now. If they haven't already made them.

Obama who is on his final foreighn tour now. This working together stuff. Its exactly the kind of stuff people want to hear in China, Europe, Asia, Africa.

Originally posted by BackFire
Trump not knowing much about the job should surprise no one who has actually been following this election. He made it very clear numerous times during the debates that he doesn't actually know what the job entails, or its limits.

I'm glad to hear Obama is going to put a bit more effort than is normal to help teach and guide Trump, my hope is that he will continue to talk with Trump after and be a voice in his ear after Trump becomes president, and hopefully be a counter weight to the seemingly very extreme right wing echo chamber that Trump is setting up for himself in the whitehouse. Hopefully Obama can pull him in a slightly more moderate direction.

As far as how much damage Trump can do in 4 years, it's difficult to say. I think the most potential for long term damage would lie with foreign affairs and how the rest of the world might see America if Trump fails to actually earn their respect and earns a leadership role. Then other countries will take up that leadership role on various aspects. We're already seeing this with the Paris agreement for climate change. Other countries are planning on just moving forward without us, including China and possibly even Russia, this would improve the standing of China and Russia in the eyes of the rest of the world while simultaneously diminish our standing.