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Obama Politely Asks Trump to Wait Until Inauguration Before Destroying World
10:10 AM
Photograph by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
WASHINGTON In an Oval Office meeting that White House aides described as friendly but strained, President Obama politely asked President-elect Donald Trump to wait until he is officially sworn in to begin destroying the world.
According to the aides, Obama said that, while he understood that Trump was eager to create potentially cataclysmic diplomatic crises around the world, tradition dictated that he wait until he is actually President to do so.
Obama cited the example of George W. Bush, who waited until he took the oath of office before wreaking destruction on a massive scale.
Therell be loads of time for you to do stuff like that, Obama reportedly said.
During the meeting, which lasted nearly an hour, Obama repeatedly asked Trump if he understood what was being said to him, the aides reported.
After the meeting, Trump spoke briefly with reporters but cut the session short to jump on a phone call with Kim Jong-un.
Hes a terrific guy, hes doing just a terrific job over there, Trump said, of the North Korean leader.
Obama did not take questions from reporters but was later seen sitting at his desk, holding his head in his hands.
By Andy Borowitz,
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-politely-asks-trump-to-wait-until-inauguration-before-destroying-world?mbid=social_facebook
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)Calculating
(2,957 posts)...
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)ailsagirl
(22,907 posts)but it hurts like hell.
Gallows humor
noun
grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)The disclaimer should be on top of the post.
Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)I do
babylonsister
(171,109 posts)Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)I also imagine a man who geared his words down to a child's level in hopes of curbing the behavior of the over-grown orange puffer fish he was speaking to.
I can almost hear Obama asking the great orange hype to not give in to his irrational impulses. Only Obama would have told him to not tweet angry, since that is the only level of speaking Trump Jong-un understands.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,179 posts)that has appointed White Nationalists to head his departments. And who wants to dismantle, if not him then his majority party, the biggest accomplishment of Obama's term, the ACA.
I can only imagine. And his daughters who thought their father helped to usher in a new enlightened era only to watch all of his accomplishments be destroyed. Michelle, who gave so much of herself with her outstanding speeches (so good even Trump's wife used them) during the campaign. Their whole family must be devastated behind doors.
Nay
(12,051 posts)years of my life trying to set things right, only to be rejected and then faced with a blowhard racist/sexist as my successor. If the Obamas muttered "fuck this shit" and moved to Canada I wouldn't blame them a bit.
louis-t
(23,310 posts)I wish I could laugh....
wordpix
(18,652 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)mountain grammy
(26,666 posts)barbtries
(28,818 posts)"you may as well laugh as cry"
when i saw this on fb this morning i decided to laugh. it's funny. tragic and funny...
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)How and why can he be doing what he is doing? Well, maybe does not apply to Dictator Elect.