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| WATCH LIVE: President Obama gives first post-election press conference | WATCH LIVE: President Obama gives first post-election press conference |
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| Outgoing President Barack Obama is answering questions from reporters on a wide variety of topics. This is his first press conference following the presidential election last week. | Outgoing President Barack Obama is answering questions from reporters on a wide variety of topics. This is his first press conference following the presidential election last week. |
| He started with talking about his plans for the upcoming international trips and the transition of the office to Donald Trump. | He started with talking about his plans for the upcoming international trips and the transition of the office to Donald Trump. |
| “When we turn over the keys, the car’s in pretty good shape,” he said. | “When we turn over the keys, the car’s in pretty good shape,” he said. |
| Answering the first question, Obama said that he will assure foreign leaders in continuity of US foreign policy and maintaining core relationships, including NATO. | Answering the first question, Obama said that he will assure foreign leaders in continuity of US foreign policy and maintaining core relationships, including NATO. |
| Obama also provided some criticism of how the Democratic Party handled the election, urging the party leaders to reflect and learn from the experience. “Given population distribution throughout the country, we have to compete everywhere, we have to show up everywhere,” he said. | Obama also provided some criticism of how the Democratic Party handled the election, urging the party leaders to reflect and learn from the experience. “Given population distribution throughout the country, we have to compete everywhere, we have to show up everywhere,” he said. |
| The US economy is in much better shape than it was when he came into the office, Obama said, adding that he didn’t have time to get used to things as economy was collapsing around him. | |
| "The incoming admin doesn’t have to put out a huge number of fires, " he said. | |
| The outgoing president declined to comment on any appointments his successor might make. | |
| “People have spoken. Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States,” Obama said. “Those who didn’t vote for him have to recognize that is how democracy works, that is how the system operates.” | |
| "He successfully mobilized a big chunk of the country and he won," Obama said of Trump, noting that the "reality" will force him to make corrections to some of his controversial positions. | |
| “Regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up. Those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don’t match up w/ reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick b/c reality has a way of asserting itself,” he said. | |
| Obama said that the new administration will have to take things slowly and to think through how various issues play out, giving as an example the Affordable Care Act. Although he noted that dismantling Obamacare was the "Holy Grail" for Republicans, they have to figure out how to provide such things as insurance with pre-existing conditions. "If they can come up with something better that actually works, if in a year or two after, if it’s better and running smoothly, i’ll be the first to say that’s great, congratulations," Obama said. |