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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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To: tcrlaf

Can you imagine every waking hour watching a real President wipe his ass with your legacy, living under constant threat of exposure of your federal crimes.

To me, that’s hell.

To cope of course, he’s back to doing what he does best, snorting coke and smoking poles.


21 posted on 05/30/2018 2:57:17 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: tcrlaf
This article is in the dictionary as the compleat and unvarnished example of

FAKE NEWS

22 posted on 05/30/2018 2:57:27 PM PDT by atc23
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To: tcrlaf
"When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye."


23 posted on 05/30/2018 2:57:44 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: tcrlaf
"When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted."

I hope she's cried buckets since then.

24 posted on 05/30/2018 2:58:02 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: tcrlaf
"And he expressed rare self-doubt,"

Oh yes, we know he rarely doubts himself. But as for tribalism, we aren't tribal, we're national. This is AMERICA, not just some random "democracy" between Canada and Mexico.

25 posted on 05/30/2018 2:58:03 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: tcrlaf

Translation: “What if our rush to destroy America spooked the herd?”


26 posted on 05/30/2018 2:58:10 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: cpdiii

The tears are fake.

And no contrition to the American people for bad policies and a wastrel of an Administration.


27 posted on 05/30/2018 2:58:24 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: RinaseaofDs

LOL.
My thoughts exactly. This is part of the opium they are feeding the brain dead left. The Messiah was troubled, worried for his flock. We need to resist and bring back his vision... Barf...


28 posted on 05/30/2018 2:58:45 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: tcrlaf

Oh, BOO HOO!


29 posted on 05/30/2018 3:01:00 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: tcrlaf
"They thought they had it all in the bag."

Quite simply, it was not the will of Allah.

30 posted on 05/30/2018 3:01:20 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I agree. Zero has no such thoughts.


31 posted on 05/30/2018 3:03:42 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: Moonman62

Was that fool or tool?

Suggest that either fits. Tool of the D’rat party must be a fool to think anyone could pull it off. Got to give them this: it’s not for lack of trying. They read us wrong only due to the fact most haven’t yet learned to comprehend what was read.


32 posted on 05/30/2018 3:04:13 PM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - US Pres. Donald J. Trump)
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To: tcrlaf
“Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

Because everybody else are primitives, unlike The Won.

33 posted on 05/30/2018 3:06:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: tcrlaf

The biggest bullet dodged in my lifetime. Thank you God.


34 posted on 05/30/2018 3:07:27 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: RinaseaofDs

Apocryphal.


35 posted on 05/30/2018 3:07:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: tcrlaf

““She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.”

Soros will keep this munchkin company.


36 posted on 05/30/2018 3:09:09 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Eddie01

“To cope of course, he’s back to doing what he does best, snorting coke and smoking poles.”

lolol


37 posted on 05/30/2018 3:09:26 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: tcrlaf
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.”


Yeah, right.
38 posted on 05/30/2018 3:09:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: tcrlaf

Puke.


39 posted on 05/30/2018 3:09:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: tcrlaf

“Mr. Obama had authorized a statement to be issued by intelligence agency leaders a month before the election warning of Russian interference, but was thwarted from doing more because Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, refused to go along with a bipartisan statement.”

Mitch: Who would of thought it? At least you did something right!


40 posted on 05/30/2018 3:13:17 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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