President Barack Obama kicked off his last official overseas trip in Greece on Tuesday saying he doesn’t bear responsibility for Donald Trump, whose unorthodox election victory has left foreign leaders skittish about the next administration.
Obama, when asked by NBC News about whether he feels responsible for the election of Trump — seen as a referendum on his last eight years in office — the president told reporters: “I still don’t feel responsible for what the president-elect says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him, as well as the American people, my best thinking.”
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Obama acknowledged that the GOP nominee’s win was a way for Americans to “shake things up.” His policies on globalization and increasing international relations run counter to Trump, who peppered his language on the campaign trail with “America first” rhetoric.
In a speech over the summer, Trump criticized a “leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism.”
Obama on Tuesday said presidential elections can turn on a number of factors, including candidate personalities as well as a campaign’s effectiveness, and Trump’s rhetoric “tapped into that particular strain within the Republican Party” to win over voters. Read more here : http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/obama-i-still-don-t-feel-responsible-trump-s-win-n684001?cid=par-twitter-feed_20161115&utm_content=bufferac064&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer