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How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’
MSN/NYTimes ^ | 5-30-2018 | Peter Baker

Posted on 05/30/2018 2:45:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

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Mr. Rhodes describes the reaction of foreign leaders. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan apologized for breaching protocol by meeting with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan after the election. Mr. Obama urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to take on a more vocal role defending the values they shared.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump’s election to defend the liberal international order. When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; benrhodesbook; criminalacts; globalism; goodriddance; illegalspying; kenyanidiot; obama; sovereignnation; tears; trump; worstpresidentever
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They never even considered that she could lose. They thought they had it all in the bag.
1 posted on 05/30/2018 2:45:46 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Ahhhh. The unbelievers.

God was and is and is to come. They forgot.


2 posted on 05/30/2018 2:47:56 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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Maybe, Zero? Let me illuminate you.


3 posted on 05/30/2018 2:48:23 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: tcrlaf

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was wrong in so many ways.


4 posted on 05/30/2018 2:48:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Pure foreign collusion! Arrest the SOB.


5 posted on 05/30/2018 2:48:54 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: tcrlaf

None of this happened. Not one thing described above actually happened.


6 posted on 05/30/2018 2:49:19 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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“Fall back into thier tribe”, thats rich coming from this guy, all he is about is tribalism, and keeping them at each others throats.


7 posted on 05/30/2018 2:49:30 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: tcrlaf

We out voted a mountain of fraud.


8 posted on 05/30/2018 2:49:52 PM PDT by The Toll
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even his admission that he was wrong was supercilious nonsense.


9 posted on 05/30/2018 2:50:48 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Isn’t this the guy who knows more about everything than everyone around him? I can’t even imagine him having a conversation where he thought he might be wrong.


10 posted on 05/30/2018 2:51:19 PM PDT by Twotone
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Crying Merkel.


11 posted on 05/30/2018 2:51:28 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: RinaseaofDs

It does sound mighty contrived.


12 posted on 05/30/2018 2:53:08 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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Fall back to their tribe? No, people were just sick of socialist token morons running the country.


13 posted on 05/30/2018 2:53:19 PM PDT by jetson
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“Fall back into thier tribe”, thats rich coming from this guy, all he is about is tribalism, and keeping them at each others throats.
it's "bitter clingers to their God and their guns", the sequel.
14 posted on 05/30/2018 2:53:43 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Obama’s legacy has been erased.

They’re still shaken by the November 8, 2016 outcome.

Good.


15 posted on 05/30/2018 2:54:08 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Given Obama’s consummate arrogance towards anyone else’s opinion but his own, this comment sounds less and less like a real “Whoa, what if we were wrong?” and more like “What is it with these uneducated knaves who can’t see what I’m really trying to do for them?”

If he even felt the former, it was for a brief second or two - and then he went along on his merry way.


16 posted on 05/30/2018 2:55:04 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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I do not believe one damn word of this article from the New York Times.


17 posted on 05/30/2018 2:55:05 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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“What if we get caught?”


18 posted on 05/30/2018 2:56:12 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Obama is deluded fool at best.


19 posted on 05/30/2018 2:56:31 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor Commies..let me help you wipe those tears


20 posted on 05/30/2018 2:56:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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