Obama Politely Asks Trump to Wait Until Inauguration Before Destroying World
Obama Politely Asks Trump to Wait Until Inauguration Before Destroying World
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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.
“There’ll 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.”
“He’s a terrific guy, he’s 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,
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but it hurts like hell.
Gallows humor
noun
grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
I do
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.
