{"id":43370,"date":"2017-09-04T04:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T04:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43370"},"modified":"2017-09-04T04:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T04:54:22","slug":"obama-offered-reflections-instead-advice-trump-inauguration-day-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-offered-reflections-instead-advice-trump-inauguration-day-letter.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Offered &#8216;reflections&#8217; instead of advice to Trump in Inauguration Day letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Former President Obama offered &#8220;reflections&#8221; instead of advice to President Trump in an Inaguration Day letter that touched on American leadership in the world and democratic institutions, CNN reported Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In the nearly 300-word letter obtained by the network, Obama congratulated him on his \u201cremarkable run\u201d and said, \u201call of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cThis is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I don&#8217;t know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful,\u201d Obama added. \u201cStill, let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The former president noted that both he and Trump have \u201cbeen blessed, in different ways, with great good fortune.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cIt&#8217;s up to us to do everything we can [to] build more ladders of success for every child and family that&#8217;s willing to work hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Obama also urged Trump to preserve American leadership on the world stage \u201cthrough action and example,\u201d and emphasized that both of them were just \u201ctemporary occupants of this office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cThat makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions \u2014 like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties \u2014 that our forebears fought and bled for,\u201d Obama wrote. \u201cRegardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it&#8217;s up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Obama ended his note to the new president by encouraging him to take time for friends and family, and wished him \u201cGood luck and godspeed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">CNN reports it obtained a copy of the letter from someone shown the letter by Trump, adding that the president occasionally shows it to visitors at the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Trump had previously gushed about the letter in an interview with ABC News shortly after taking office. He called Obama\u2019s letter \u201cbeautiful\u201d and \u201cso well-written.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI doubt too many of them were written in this manner,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cIn fact, I called him and thanked him for the thought that was put into that letter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Trump didn\u2019t let ABC News host David Muir read the letter but noted it was \u201clong\u201d and \u201cthoughtful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cIt was long. It was complex. It was thoughtful. And it took time to do it, and I appreciated it and I called him and thanked him,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/349032-obama-offered-trump-key-advice-in-inauguration-letter<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-offered-reflections-instead-advice-trump-inauguration-day-letter.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Obama offered &#8220;reflections&#8221; instead of advice to President Trump in an Inaguration Day letter that touched on American leadership in the world and democratic institutions, CNN reported Sunday. In the nearly 300-word letter obtained by the network, Obama congratulated him on his \u201cremarkable run\u201d and said, \u201call of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":43372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[57597,57598,57599,57600,57601,57593],"class_list":["post-43370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-breaking-news-background","tag-breaking-news-fox","tag-breaking-news-images","tag-breaking-news-local","tag-breaking-news-picture","tag-breaking-news-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}