Obama takes break from Hawaii vacation to chat with Trump
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama flashed a shaka at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Tuesday.
The White House says President Barack Obama is committed to keep talking with President-elect Donald Trump after Trump accused him of throwing up “roadblocks” to a smooth transition of power.
Obama called Trump this morning from Oahu, where the president is on vacation with his family. The White House said the call was “positive” and focused on “continuing a smooth and effective transition.”
White House spokesman Eric Schultz says Obama’s other calls with Trump since the election were also positive. He said Obama and Trump agreed that their teams will keep working together until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
Later in the day, the Obama family and friends ate dinner at the Japanese restaurant Nobu in Honolulu.
Prior to that, they spent an hour late in the afternoon touring a center for Islamic art and culture in Honolulu. The center is in Shangri La — the former mansion of the heiress Doris Duke that overlooks the Pacific Ocean near Diamond Head.
The president’s brother-in-law, Konrad Ng, is the director of Shangri La. Ng is married to Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and the couple and their family live in Honolulu.
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The party traveled by motorcade from their rental home in Kailua to the center, about a 30-minute trip.
Earlier, Trump said on Twitter that the transition was not going smoothly and blamed Obama. He also took issue with Obama’s move to let a United Nations Security Council resolution criticizing Israel over West Bank settlements pass.
Obama’s vacation, meanwhile, continued with more of his favorite pastime, hitting the links at Kapolei Golf Course with friends Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme. The president started the day with a workout at a gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii near his rental home in Kailua.
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The jive talking golf hack hip hop will be tolerated until January 20, 2017.
After that it’ll be Bringing Back America with a REAL American First Family & Administration!
#MAGA
Real American is what Obama and his gracious family are. What one earth is wrong with you? Obama is certainly the more intelligent and bigger man to so kindly stoop to speak to the clown as if he were, um, more than a clown who lost the popular vote and lacks any mandate.
I’m proud of you Allie, you state it as it is!!!! go get em!!!
Dang I hit a nerve?!! So sowwy but you really should #Suck It Up, Buttercup
I’m proud of you Allie, you state it as it is!!!!
Dang I hit a nerve?!! So sowwy but you really should #Suck It Up, Buttercup
So true Allie!!!
Dang it I hit a nerve?!! So sowwy but you really should #Suck It Up, Buttercup
Keonigohan – You are a worthless, racist piece of garbage failure. Ignorant beyond words.
@ KKKlastri
Dang I hit a nerve?!! So sowwy but you really should #Suck It Up, Buttercup
You LOST in a LANDSLIDE. Eat CROW!
WeThePeople WON!
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
You know, back when America was great, in the past? When men could beat women and racism was tolerated?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9K5KEs4rE
trumpistas: America is great now.
well, electing TheDonald just delayed Sharia! Islam/Muslim Religion is the Greatest! Allahu Akbar!
@ Pocahontas
LOL how true!
#MAGA
@ kealaula
Weren’t you the one who said there was NO TERROR ATTACKS on US Soil during Obama’s 8 years?
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
@ Pocho
Sorry about the iphone typo on your nic
Sorry allie, no free student loan forgiveness from Trump. Maybe like Klastri, you might want to sue UH for misleading you into a useless Libtard education with no future prospects for a career that pays a living wage. Stop pandering to the former president, you obviously didn’t learn that life goes on and you should be thinking of SOLUTIONS rather than begging for handouts from the party that fed you a lunch plate to get a vote from you then they left you with a nasty bill in the end.
@ allie
What has BO accomplished that benefited a MAJORITY of Americans?
Maybe I might turn extreme Liberal like you if you can positively answer that question with FACT(s).
If not then back to eating CROW for you.
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
Allie, do you know what a mandate is?
It usually means when someone wins a majority of the popular vote. So are you saying that Mrs. Clinton has a mandate to do something?
Mr. Trump keeps lying (as do others here) about winning in a “historic landslide” when his margin was 45th out of the last 50 elections. And he lost the popular vote by 3 million.
@ KKKlastri
You allie?
Luv ya Allie!
Aw, poor widdle JohnRicey doesn’t want his hero talking to the African-American kid. Hey JohnRicey wake up, you rather that Obama not talk to Trump? Does it go against your agenda, you rather have everyone disagreeing with each other? Trump will be on the job soon and will get his chance to show what he can do, until then he’ll do what he has to in order to be ready to run. Don’t you want him at his best on Day 1?
And All-Lies, go back to North Dakota and sit by the river.
Keonigoham says (translation): “The jive talking golf hack hip hop (President Obama is African American) will be tolerated until January 20, 2017.
After that it’ll be Bringing Back America with a REAL (white) American First Family & Administration!” #MAGA #TragicIrony
Keonigoham repeatedly engages in such despicable “dog whistle” racist talk, but denies it in a cowardly manner. He accuses advocates of racial tolerance of being racist, and says the only thing that matters is “Trump won”. None of this will change the truth. Obama has been a competent President who accomplished things despite virulent opposition from a “do nothing” Republican-led Congress. He is a good man. Trump, on the other hand, is a greedy bully whose incompetence and fragile ego threaten global stability.
Exactly. That ignorant racist piece of garbage cannot sleep at night knowing that a black family lives in the White House.
He’s been a vile piece of trash on here for years, railing against the Obama family no mater what they did.
And he’s a pathological liar who thinks that CAPITALIZING a lie makes it true. Worthless trash.
@ DannoBoy & KKKlastri
Aside from the name calling…
What has O accomplished that benefited a MAJORITY of Americans?
He took an economy that Republicans had utterly destroyed, and he stabilized it into the strongest economy in the world. Look at the strength of the dollar. As strong economy is a stable economy. None of your fake news-based propoganda can hide the fact that Obama has made America whole after the GOP crashed it into pieces. And THAT, my small-minded non-friend, is what President Obama accomplished that benefited a MAJORITY of Americans.
@ HEI
“GOP had utterly destroyed”…really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Recession#cite_note-Sowell_2009-18
There are several “narratives” attempting to place the causes of the crisis into context, with overlapping elements. Five such narratives include:
1. There was the equivalent of a bank run on the shadow banking system, which includes investment banks and other non-depository financial entities. This system had grown to rival the depository system in scale yet was not subject to the same regulatory safeguards.[3]
2. The economy was being driven by a housing bubble. When it burst, private residential investment (i.e., housing construction) fell by nearly 4%. GDP and consumption enabled by bubble-generated housing wealth also slowed. This created a gap in annual demand (GDP) of nearly $1 trillion. Government was unwilling to make up for this private sector shortfall.[15][16]
3. Record levels of household debt accumulated in the decades preceding the crisis resulted in a “balance sheet recession” once housing prices began falling in 2006. Consumers began paying down debt, which reduces their consumption, slowing down the economy for an extended period while debt levels are reduced.[3][17]
4. Government policies that encouraged home ownership even for those who could not afford it, contributing to lax lending standards, unsustainable housing price increases, and indebtedness.[18]
5. The financial turmoil induced an increase in money demand (precautionary hoarding). This increase in money demand triggered a corresponding decline in commodity demand.
The DOLLAR was always good/strong but O had absolutely nothing to do with “stabilizing” the DOLLAR. Or provide a link to back up your statement.
So again I ask you HEI spin doctor:
What specific law/action did O get passed or accomplished that benefited a MAJORITY of Americans…be specific.
I agree totally,, 22 more days then America will start to be great again! Keonigohan you are so smart!
#MAGA ^5
Well this is so refreshing. If Obama and Trump can work together in this transition,, then maybe our country can heal. Thank you President Obama for doing the right thing.
amen nalo!
Wonder if Trump will do the same four years from now?
Yes Nalo, Perhaps even this web forum can also. Polite discourse, agreement to disagree, and acknowledgement of differing views are a good start. I pledge to try to do my part.
A gentleman comment, Cellodad !
Good luck! But, that would be a good thing!
Nope… can’t change cranky old men…
Country is moving along really well, Russell 2000 is living proof that the small & medium business owners finally see an opportunity to grow under Trump since only the Fortune 100 cuddled under Obama to kept expanding their monopolies. The only people that can’t seem to heal are the Libtards still bitterly criticizing our future president before he even has a chance to start implementing changes that will hopefully correct some of the massive mistakes the prior administration has left him with that include the prior Kenyan Muslim anchor baby’s bitter departure from office in the last few days remaining in his presidency. Business is a dod eat dog world. If anyone knows how to play the game it’s business men and Wall St. not some Kenyan voodoo priest maker telling us we can keep our Doctors and health plan. LOL
” Business is a dod eat dog world”
Yeah yeah, I know, typos, I tend to hit the “post comment” button a bit too quickly. 🙂
Obama and his minions are sore losers.
Obama is just checking to see if his expenses on this vacation will be paid for by the next administration.
Obama is all about the Optics! And if he was so concerned with the domestic and World problems we all face today?What the heck is doing taking a VACATION? I mean Really ? Don’t you think he should still be hard at work solving the Worlds Problem;ie.The latest the US/UN Israel issue! Is it just me?
The way I see it:
Next Month he can take as much Vacations as he wants! He’s still on the Clock! He’s got work to do! Braaaaah! He’s going to ride this all the way to the end. I’m telling you,he still like the Perks and is not willing to give it up…..just yet!
Pt.Duuuuuuh
Today episode.”Not Falling for it and Nobody’s Fool”.
I don’t think PE. DJT is that Stupid as Obama thinks he is.He forgets PE Trump is always calculating the next move. While President Obama is still playing Golf & Checkers. PE Trump is a master. A Master at……Chess!
KaBoom!
#MAGA
Obama making stupid comments like he did…..yeah, that’s a smooth transition alright.
Narcissists like O speaks one way to the Press and another way during a private conversation…sorta like hiLIARy.
Great news…. looks like Trump has accepted Obama’s counsel on Israel.
Should be interesting if the US Embassy is located in Jerusalem. The US ambassador will learn first hand of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land in Jerusalem and Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian families there…
Let me guess…you watch CNN?
More like Hawai’i taking a break from obama. That POS wore out his welcome the first time he came here on vacation. Good riddance. Come back when you can’t stay so long!
Your dusrespect President Obama, who is a good man, gracious and successful despite ugly American racists, indicates that you are an envious little POS.
@ DannoBoy
What has O accomplished that benefited a MAJORITY of Americans?
Well, he’s mainly responsible (with a lot of help from Hitlery & her sexual predator husband), for destroying the Democratic party, and THAT benefits us all!! Does that count?? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
@ NahokuIIwebguy
ut oh…you just stepped on the Liberal Ant Hill! lol
BUT I agree with you that O did destroy the Dem party! All they got is Muslim Keith Ellison, Crazy Pelosi, Pocahontas liz warren, Old Bernie as their leaders!
Obama needs to just enjoy his vacation and quit saying how great he is!
But he is great and being missed already.
yes–a legend in his own mind.
@ Nesmith
WOW!
Seriously! He needs to get back to what he does best, destroying America, being a racist, staying totally delusional, and playing golf. That’s about all he’s good for.